Five data security tips for CISOs in the cloud era
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Cloud adoption and the exponential growth in data usage, storage, and transfer have made sensitive data a lucrative target for malicious actors. Sensitive data just doesn’t get stored only in secure on-prem networks, but rather in various cloud and multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake.
The dramatic repercussions of stolen or compromised customer data manifested in data-based breaches over the past two years have driven home the understanding that it’s crucial to find scalable data security products. On that note, it’s important to emphasize that tools are only part of the equation and aren’t always enough. The following are critical data security management tips and suggestions for forward-thinking CISOs and their teams, to complement their data security strategy:
Ensure that business leaders understand – and help define – the organization’s risk appetite. Security requires a much broader effort across departments than in the past. Today, security risk has become business risk, and all teams and executives must be aware of what the organization’s risks and threats are and what the organizational data security strategy requires of them. It’s up to security leaders to identify a clear and transparent security culture, that security tools are chosen not only by their security value, but also for their ability to support and improve business and risk goals.
Prioritize data management. With the amount of data spreading across and outside company borders, it’s essential to understand and classify the type of data that resides in all storage locations and build a comprehensive data inventory. Proper data management helps inform decision-making processes and operational strategies, as CISOs receive a real-time view of their entire data risk surface.
Understand who does what with the data – and why. Data usage and access have become the most important domains of cloud security and data management. Visibility into company data has become challenging enough, but today, it’s also now important to see, understand and manage who has access to sensitive data, what activities are undertaken using this data. and why these privileges exist. Read More…
