How to Engineer a Better Network Security
#2 Know where data sits:
One big mistake that organizations jump into is when they fall short of view points on where their data is exactly sitting.
According to Scott Laliberte, managing director at global business consulting and auditing firm Protiviti, data leakage is not the only problem that organizations face. Laliberte calls it ‘data discovery’ where organizations make sure that they don’t lose data through the front end. Nowadays organizations are more aware of the position of their data and the way in managing these data’s. “Organizations are being more confident and clear on where the data for sensitive information really does reside and then organizing it in such a way that you can manage it in a segmented way," he says.
Earlier this year Protiviti conducted a survey on data discovery and segmentation, where an astonishing 50 percent of companies had no hardcore plans of data specification and organization.
“In almost every instance there is a surprise found by the client as to where some of the sensitive data is," Laliberte says.
