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IntroductionDigital technology has become a part of life, and it plays a prominent role in almost every business type, be it online shopping to banking to government infrastructure. With constant development in technology, businesses hold huge risks of data leakage and data breaches can affect the growth and reputation of organizations. Hence, Data Security becomes crucial to every organization irrespective of their sizes or business types. Once tracking technologies were introduced a few years ago, every step of your digital footprint was being recorded without any regulation on the data collection. This implied that, whether you shopped online, booked tickets, or posted a picture on social media, your data was recorded/collected freely by the Website/Portal owners who used that information at their own will. However, today the situation has changed. With the increasing data theft incidents and threat landscape – all businesses are obliged to protect their data. Also, since existing privacy laws were not enough for regulating this data collection and usage, governments across the globe began passing new laws or updating the existing ones to avoid misuse of personal information on the internet. The recent ones being – GDPR, CCPA, and more. Thus, as technologies change, so do data privacy laws and governments end up framing new laws or amend existing privacy laws. Why Data Security? Data is an asset for any organization and is key to its growth and success. To have strong data security, it is important to secure your data from everywhere, every device, every network, throughout cloud and across the web that connects to your corporate data. To secure your data from today’s advanced data security threats, you must be aware of these data security considerations. |
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After considering the above key security vectors, the next step is to know what measures are required to implement & build a strong comprehensive data security posture for your organization and to protect your sensitive data from data breach/data leak. Below are some of the best data security measures to consider. |
Data Security Measures
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Most Prevalent Data Security Compliance and StandardsAs the data threat landscape & technology changes, data privacy laws and governments try to keep up with the changes and makes necessary amendments in these laws. So, either there are new regulations that are being passed, or the existing ones are being updated regularly. But there is certain compliance regulation that governs organizations dealing in personal data regardless of the type or size of the organization. The most widely complied regulations include the following: GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is amended to protect data of citizens in European & U.K. region from a data breach. It not only applies to the organization residing in the EU/UK but also applies to the companies processing personal data of European/U.K. citizens. (Read More) HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was amended to protect individual medical records and other personal health information and the health care transactions that are carried electronically. Sox/Sarbox: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was amended by the U.S. to protect investors from fraudulent activities and strictly mandates reforms to improve financial disclosures from corporations and protects accounting fraud. CCPA: The California Consumer Privacy Act is amended to protect consumer data of California citizens and creates rights relating to access, deletion and sharing of personal information collected by a company. |
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