of this series, there are three cornerstones to a successful data-first security strategy: discovery, assessment and remediation. However, the foundation of any security strategy should be to always keep data encrypted—when it’s at rest, in motion, and in use—and in all places, including on-premises, in the cloud and within SaaS applications.
This is vital for tech professionals in an era of increasingly common data breaches. There were more than 3,200 publicly reportedData Exposure Management: Prioritizing Data And Thinking Like a Hacker Roughly 90% of businesses have adopted hybrid cloud models or use more than one cloud provider, but a surprising amount of that group relies on security policies and strategies that make their data vulnerable. Change Healthcare recently suffered one of the most devastating, and it continued to work with Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks on recovery for weeks after the initial breach.
Doing this effectively can be a technical challenge without an easy way to identify shortcomings, but it’s one that CISOs and their teams know needs to be tackled. What can be even more challenging, however, is gaining alignment and buy-in across the organization—tech professionals know and understand why this is important, but others across the business may not.