Data protection as a concept in cybersecurity is not new, but the demands placed on legacy data protection systems have changed drastically in the past decade. Security professionals were once confident that the valuable data they protected was safely tucked away inside heavily fortified data centers. But digital transformation entails that businesses, large and small, move their data to the cloud and across distributed locations. Your data now finds its way everywhere users are, wherever that is. Your business may share digital connections to huge numbers of third- and even fourth-party suppliers, partners, and contractors. These scenarios bring both unprecedented business opportunities (good news) and security challenges, particularly regarding data protection (not good news).
Successful breaches can have devastating consequences for a business. The risks from insiders (whether malicious or negligent) are as dangerous to your business as headline-grabbing attacks by outside actors. All threaten to expose sensitive information. Data protection is now a cornerstone of compliance rules, with industry and data privacy regulations that specifically detail your business’s responsibilities and significant penalties for failure.
About This Book
This book can prepare you to make informed decisions about how to evaluate your organization’s current approach to data protection and evaluate new data protection solutions to find the best fit for your needs, using zero trust principles to guide how security is contextually and consistently applied. By explaining how modern, cloud-delivered DLP systems work, this book cuts through the marketing clutter to identify the characteristics and capabilities needed to reliably protect your data anywhere it may be used.