Data Leakage Prevention, How to Take Control of Your Data in 2021

Take a look into the steps to control your data

Safeguarding important information and data is the most important task for every individual. The importance of data protection increases as the amount of data created and stored continues to grow at an increasing rate. Data protection strategy ensures that data can be restored quickly when required. Protecting data from compromise and ensuring data privacy are other key components of data protection.

Coronavirus pandemic has changed the whole economic and social structure of the world. It has caused millions of employees to work from home which therefore requires remote data protection. To prevent leaks and data loss every business must adapt to ensure that data is protected wherever the employees are, from a central data center in the office to laptops at home.

As everything has shifted to online communication and application, there is a tremendous amount of data movement, processing, storage, and increasing security concerns. This caters to the need to control and protect data.

Ways to protect and take control of your data

Protection of Privacy with AI

Data privacy has become very important with the increase in the number of data processing and movements inside and on the edge of the organizations. Because of this data leaks are becoming an increasing risk that is very hard to identify. Therefore, many businesses across the globe are making use of AI to scan data as well as to prevent data from being leaked. There are AI-driven automated tools for data leak prevention that have the potential to eradicate unwanted data leaks by tracing, limiting, and blocking data access and sharing. In fact, these tools have the ability to learn from prior and upcoming malware attacks and data loss events.

Thus, AI can be used to identify potential risks like suspicious customers and can alleviate issues before leaks occur.

Identity Prioritization

Covid-19 has caused millions of employees to work from home which therefore requires remote data protection. Such hybrid workforces have made identity and access protocols more difficult to monitor and maintain. Adoption of Single Sign-On (SSO) is the only process that serves to enhance governance around confidential account access. But it is important to realize for every organization that SSO can work only if MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) is properly tested and assessed.

Re-examining the Digital Engagement of Data

With digital transformation and the advent of the internet and also with the ongoing pandemic digital and online communication has become more important. Digital communication is now a primary method that engages customers from all around the world. Therefore it is vital to optimizing digital engagement at every step to maintain data privacy, to select metrics that are important, and to develop dashboards for tracing, examining, and sharing data. The chief information officer of every organization needs to work with their partners to examine how data analysis should emerge to keep track of the existing market trends. There is data that is outdated, if those are used to examine customer journey then the organization is at high risk.

Consider the Edge

The year 2021 is a time for many CIOs to properly evaluate the process of adding data and storage infrastructure to the edge. It is important to determine the necessary amount of real-time data processing and rapid decision-making that is needed to keep customers engaged. The more the demands are for quick processing power and data analysis, the more likely it is that CIOs will need to include or increase edge computing capabilities.

The emergence of Disaster Recovery Plans

It is important to recover disasters by restoring data that are lost or leaked. Data unification and security are essential for every organization. The organization should understand whether the existing disaster recovery plans are enough for growing data sharing and processing demands.