Data Protection: What Needs to Be Protected?


Where is your organization’s data? From global data centers to PCs to mobile apps, data is strewn all over the place. So how do you protect it all? 


You can’t encrypt everything, right? It’s too expensive and time-consuming. Even the most stringent regulations don’t demand that level of data protection. For example, GDPR focuses primarily on personally identifiable information (PII). Still, you also want to protect your intellectual property from a data breach.  


How can businesses determine which data needs to be protected? What is a data security strategy built upon? And what are some best practices to help avoid a company data breach? Let’s find out.


Data Protection Begins with Data Discovery 


You can’t protect something if you don’t know where it lives. Data can be found stored in data centers, file shares, laptops, desktops, mobile devices, cloud storage and edge computing infrastructure. But you have to locate the data to protect it.


IT, security, legal and privacy teams can all participate in data discovery. As users create and add data throughout your enterprise, the data should not remain hidden in silos. The objective is to locate and index existing data and develop a system that continuously surfaces the data. 


Before we look at data discovery solutions, let’s examine the next step in the process. 


Data Classification


When you properly classify, tag or label your data, it’s easier to decide about data protection priorities. Classification helps put everyone on the same page about database security and data governance. 


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