Security News > 2020 > March > Data-layer security is a new imperative as employees telecommute due to coronavirus
Commentary: COVID-19 has laid bare our need to take a new, more data-centric approach to security in light of more people working from home.
Even before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a need to reconsider traditional approaches to security.
Manav Mital, CEO and founder of Cyral, a cybersecurity startup that focuses on data-layer security, walked me through the new normal of highly distributed corporate security.
While the current environment has made the need for distributed security obvious, that need has long been with us.
New automated data-layer security watches all activity touching data that can shut down behavior that does not fit normal patterns-even if bad actors have infiltrated through vulnerable VPNs. "Corporations just need to upgrade to data-layer protection," Mital insisted.