Data Protecting for Enterprises

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Data is essential to any business. It helps it function efficiently and profitably. However, companies must take into consideration the need to have access to and plentiful data with the obligation to keep customer data secure and private. This is a challenge posed by the ever-changing privacy laws like the GDPR in Europe, and California’s CCPA and traditional laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Securities and Exchange Commission rules that protect financial information of shareholders, as well as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard for data about consumer payments.

The first step to ensuring the security of your data is to catalogue and protect all of your data. This means identifying and separating data according to its sensitivity level, and determining access levels. It is also crucial to implement a policy that protects your data even when it’s in motion or at rest. Utilizing a solution to monitor and detect file activities and identify anomalous patterns will help you detect suspicious activity quickly and identify and eliminate vulnerabilities such as outdated or incorrectly configured software.

A complete plan for recovery and backup that includes physical storage media will be vital. In addition, it’s essential to implement appropriate security measures such as background checks on potential hires and periodic training for employees who are already employed to ending employees who don’t need access to critical systems. It’s also essential to develop a recovery plan in case of an natural disaster or man-made one.

— Posted on October 3, 2023 at 12:00 am by