Data has emerged as the crown jewel for every organisation. Most modern-day cyberattacks revolve around data, making protecting enterprise data via a holistic and comprehensive data security approach a prerequisite. Further, as Indian businesses prepare for a new era in data protection with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 rollout, data security and privacy have never been more critical.
- Discovery: The ability to discover sensitive data across all the structured and unstructured data sets, including the network. Data discovery will enable comprehensive classification and risk-based protection of business data.
- Protection: Ensuring the protection of sensitive data via encryption and using key management with secure key storage and rotation policies. Data protection also includes access management to data, as well as secure backup of the data.
- Detection: The ability to detect data misuse via continuous monitoring and techniques like risk analytics, user behavior analytics, or other advanced analytics, followed by alerts on violations.
- Response: The ability to respond via incident or case creation with comprehensive tracking. The response also includes creating dynamic playbooks and orchestration or automation abilities for prompt responses, including actions over multiple systems.
- Compliance: The ability to comply with industry or government regulations, which include reporting, logging, and auditing, as well as data retention policies.
- Governance: Governance requires data security policies at the organisational level that define data sensitivity/classification and map it to the required data protection. Resiliency of such data and the ability to recover them when needed are also critical elements of governance.
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A holistic solution encompassing the above concepts leads to a cyclic ecosystem continuously improving an organisation’s data security posture. The data security solution should also include the integrated use of various security technologies like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR), Data Loss Protection (DLP), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) to enable comprehensive security to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover data.
