{"id":460,"date":"2020-12-05T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcvare.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:40:24","slug":"data-security-its-preventive-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcvare.com\/blog\/data-security-its-preventive-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Security \u2013 Overview, Threats and its Preventive Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is Data\nSecurity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We all deal with a large amount of data daily and keeping it\nsecure is our responsibility. And this is where the term Data Security comes.\nSo what is Data Security? The process of protecting data from unwanted access\nand corruption throughout its life cycle is known as Data Security. It\ncomprises of data encryption, tokenization, hashing, and key management\nactivities that secure data across different platforms and applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Data\nSecurity is Important?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Any company that creates, collects and stores data is a valuable asset for it. Protecting this data from corruption and illegal access by external or internal people safeguards the company from brand erosion, reputation damage, financial loss, and customer confidence disintegration. Companies across the globe have invested a lot in Information Technology cybersecurity competencies to safeguard their important data. Whether an organization is having a need to protect customer information, brand, intellectual investment or want to deliver control for critical arrangement, the mode of incident\/event detection and response to defending managerial\/organizational wellbeing have three common components: people, procedure, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Different\nSolutions to Protect Data Securely<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Once you understand the importance of data security, it becomes\neasy for you to frame a plan to secure your data. There are numerous data\nsecurity procedures and technologies that will protect your data along with\nmaintaining your company\u2019s productivity. Following are a few data security\ncontrols:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authentication<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Authentication, accompanied by authorization, is one of the best\nways to implement data security and safeguard against data thefts.\nAuthentication technology works on the principle of verifying if the user\u2019s\ncredentials match with those that are already stored in your database. The\nstandard authentication procedure used today for identifying an authorized user\nincludes using a combination of methods such as PINS, passwords, swipe cards,\nsecurity tokens, biometrics, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access\ncontrol<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The process through which authentication and authorization occur\nis called Access Control. The systems can comprise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • *<\/strong> Discretionary access control (minimum restrictive): It allows access to the resources on the basis of the identity of authorized users or groups.<\/li>
  • *<\/strong> Role-based access control: It assigns access on the basis of the organizational roles. \u00a0Permits users access to only specific information, depending on their role in the organization.<\/li>
  • *<\/strong> Mandatory access control: It allows a system administrator to strictly regulate access to complete information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Backups\n& Recovery<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Arranging for Data security solutions also need a plan for how\nto get access to your organization\u2019s and client\u2019s data during system failure,\ndata corruption, disaster, data theft, and other unfortunate situations.\nKeeping regular backups of your data is an important task to help you with\ngaining access to it when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A data backup involves creating a copy of data and storing the\nsame on another system or external hard disk or in the cloud. The lost data can\nthen be recovered by restoring it from backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Encryption<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Using data encryption solutions improves data security\neffectively. It uses an algorithm (known as a cipher) and encryption key to\ntransform normal data into encrypted cipher data. The encrypted data will be\nunreadable to unauthorized persons. The encrypted data can be decrypted only by\nthe user who is having the authorized keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Data Masking<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Data masking software hides the data by replacing\/disguising\nalphabets and numbers with proxy characters. The data is still lying there but\nbehind the mask. Once the authorized user receives masked data, only then the\nsoftware changes it back into its original form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Deletions & Erasure<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    When electronic data in no more needed, it must be cleared from\nthe machine permanently. It can be done by erasure that overwrites the data and\nmakes it irretrievable. Erasure is different from a deletion that only hides\nthe data, which is easy to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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