Data security protects digital information from theft or unauthorized access, whether it’s at rest at rest, in transit or in use. It requires the use of different techniques, tools and methods such as access control encryption, data masking, sensitive redaction of files tokenization, hashing, and key access management. It also incorporates physical security, which can help protect equipment and facilities that store or process sensitive data.
Avoiding breaches: In addition to the need to ensure compliance with regulations, preventing leaks of data keeps customers’ trust intact and creates an image that is positive for the business. This is even true for small businesses, which could be harmed by reputational damage and financial losses if the customer’s PII is exposed.
Secure important information. Important data like the client list of a bank or the patient records at a hospital, are not designed to be accessible to anyone. Making sure that this information is safe helps businesses maintain an edge in the market.
It ensures availability: Data that doesn’t have access when it’s needed is of no use to anyone, therefore it’s crucial to have a backup strategy for recovering data that’s backup. Solutions exist to reduce downtime caused by ransomware attacks for example, by offering cloud-based disaster recovery as a service, or by providing data snapshots.
Deletes outdated information: If a business does not need certain files anymore, it should delete them completely from its system, and not just overwrite space with new data. This is called data erasure, and it involves using software to write over the files stored on any kind of device, so that they cannot be recovered.
