What is Data Security?
Data security is a collection of techniques and processes designed to stop criminals from gaining access to confidential or sensitive data. This means that only authorized users are able to access and work with the data they are entitled to access and do so using secure and reliable methods. Authentication, authorization and role-based access controls are the most crucial aspects.
A strong data protection strategy provides business resilience, allowing the ability to continue operations and swiftly recover from disasters, user errors, application outages or malware attacks. It also ensures that backups of critical data can be recovered in near-real time and that the backups themselves are secured by physical and logical security measures.
Data security tools permit organizations to view the location of their important data, the way it is being used and who is accessing it. They should be capable of implementing a variety of security measures, such as data encryption and redaction of data, and automated reporting for audits and compliance.
They should also secure data at its source, whether it’s in a data base or file, or a cloud storage system. This includes implementing zero-trust principles that rely on immutability Quorum controls and other security features to prevent unauthorized applications from modifying or delete your data. They can also make use of advanced security tools, such as behavioral analytics. This identifies normal patterns of data usage, and alerts users to dangerous or unusual behavior. They can also utilize machine learning and cognitive computing which mimics the human mind to assist prioritize security events and protect data real-time.