Understanding the need for data security
Before we understand the need for data security, let’s try to define what data security is. Data security is the process of protecting enterprise data and preventing any data loss from malicious or unauthorized access to data. Data security includes the following tasks:
- Protecting sensitive data from attacks.
- Protecting data and applications from any ransomware attacks.
- Protecting against any attacks that can delete, modify, or corrupt corporate data.
- Allowing access and control of data to the necessary user within the organization. Again, read-only, write, and delete access is provided to the data based on the role and its use.
Some industries may have stringent data security requirements. For example, a US health insurance company needs to ensure PHI data is extremely well protected according to HIPAA standards. Another example is that a financial firm such as Bank Of America has to ensure card and account...
