After a year of disruption, in which people and organisations relentlessly worked and innovated just to stay afloat, organisations realise that they cannot wait for “normalcy” before making progress. Cyber criminals, regulators, and competitors are already moving, so you cannot afford to wait.
We can already declare 2021 a year to focus on cybersecurity and privacy. British Airways made history as it faces the single largest group claim over a data breach in UK legal history, and WhatsApp users are in uproar over its impending updates to its privacy policy. Data can either be an invaluable asset or an unbounded risk, and the only difference is how your organisation manages it.
As such, this year’s ‘Data Privacy Day’ won’t be remembered for encouraging businesses to just ‘get well’ on their protection policy, but as the launching pad to ‘staying healthy’ with an integrated approach for data protection and privacy.
Data protection should ‘just work’
Data protection is supposed to provide a safety net for the business, but most companies find the holes in their solutions at the worst possible time. Legacy data protection approaches were already struggling to keep pace with modernising businesses, and 2020 pushed them to their breaking point. As teams scrambled to work remotely and run applications in the cloud, data shifted out of the data centre – resulting in data sprawl. Backup architectures built for the data centre could not keep pace with the requirements for business application protection – regardless of whether they run in Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, or in the cloud.
In addition to a more complex data environment, the requirements for data protection are expanding. A historic touch trust
