If you’ve ever fumbled around in a dark room, looking for the light switch, you know what it’s like trying to protect an organization’s sensitive content. If you had a flashlight, you could find the light switch right away and avoid stubbing your toe on that chair in the corner. A CISO dashboard works the same way because it lets you see all your third party workflows, the channels your employees use to share confidential information with trusted external partners. Otherwise, you can’t protect what you can’t see.
These external workflow threats have a common theme: a user is the actor, and a file is the agent. Complete protection requires a defense that spans the full breadth of the associated threat surface: the collective paths of all files entering and leaving your organization. A comprehensive defense entails securing, monitoring, and managing all third party workflows, including secure email, SFTP, and secure file sharing, among others.
In my last blog post, I presented an overview of the common external workflow threats and the key strategies CISOs must employ to avoid a data breach. In this post, I’ll discuss the importance of visualizing who in your organization is sending what to whom. A real-time visualization lets you answer the most important security questions about the PII, PHI, intellectual property, and other sensitive information entering and leaving the organization.
