Data security safeguards digital information from theft or unauthorized access, whether it’s at rest at rest, in transit or in use. It involves the use of various techniques, tools and practices like access control, encryption data masking, sensitive file redaction tokenization, hashing and key access management. Physical security is also included, which helps safeguard equipment and facilities that hold sensitive data.
Prevention of breaches: Alongside the need to ensure compliance with regulations, preventing data leaks keeps customers’ trust intact and creates an image of trust for the business. This is especially true for small companies too that could be impacted by reputational and financial damage if PII of customers is exposed.
Protects sensitive information: Important information, like the client list of a bank or hospital’s patient files aren’t intended for public eyes. This information allows companies to keep their competitive edge by ensuring its security.
Assures availability. Data that is not readily available at any time isn’t good to anyone. It’s therefore important to plan a strategy to restore data that has been archived. Solutions exist that help prevent downtime from ransomware attacks, for example, by offering cloud-based disaster recovery as a service, or by offering data snapshots.
The deletion of obsolete information is when an organization no longer requires certain types of files it must remove them entirely from its systems and not simply overwrite the space with new data. This is known as data deletion and involves using software to replace the files stored on any kind of device, so that they cannot be recovered.
