In the last article, we gave the general meaning of Every Business Needs Security through Data Vaccination™. This is taking a zero-trust policy stance when evaluating your data security protocols, which protects everyone involved in your business.
This article expounds upon layer one of the Noftek Data Vaccination™ diagram representing your company’s data. Data can consist of unstructured or structured files; Unstructured file examples are word or excel Docx, Google Docs, PDF documents, music files, photograph files, etc. Structured data is stored within a database using an application to access it. Our approach to security starts at this layer.
Data is considered the lifeblood of an organization. Without it, there would be no productivity amongst staff and clientele. A Structured data breach could affect HR departments, the release of personal information, and intellectual property. Intellectual property examples range from architectural designs to source codes of a new application being revealed to the public. All information that is critical to your company needs to be protected
We protect data first because it is primarily the reason hackers target your business. An insider can delete, destroy or steal data, resulting in consequences such as, discrediting your business integrity, dismantling trust you have built with your clients, and steering away prospective clients. Data breaches create a distrust that is difficult to earn back in your community. Apart from dealing with the legalities of the breach, like being sued or having to endure consequences from governance and compliance laws, without your data being accessible to you, your business, and your staff, no longer can function.
So, how will Data Vaccination™ work against this? First, the process to secure your data would start by deploying our agents which will inject and bind the security to all of your files and folders. As the data flows or transverse inside or outside your network, whether via email, uploaded online, or copied onto flash drives, or a mobile phone; the data security remains intact.
Accessing the secured data requires an authorized user, device, and process. The first line of defense in protecting your company is by preserving the first layer, data. Then, you can rest assured that when a breach happens, whether external or internal, your data is safe; there is no way for malicious usage of the file or demand ransom.
Every Business Needs Security through Data Vaccination™, no matter the business size; taking this approach will enhance data protection of unstructured and structured files. Data Security does not have to be complicated. Our Data Vaccination™ mission is to keep it simple and effective. In addition, you will have peace of mind that your organization’s data is secured no matter the journey it takes through the Data Life Cycle. Be proactive, don’t let your data get tossed into the wrong hands.
Every Business Needs Security. Noftek Data Vaccination™ is an initiative to get protected by securing your data, making you a part of the movement to take proactive measures needed to protect your business’s success without sacrificing more of your time and interrupting productivity.