Security News > 2020 > July > Enterprise Data Security: It’s Time to Flip the Established Approach

Is the data confidential? Intellectual property? Important? The next step is determining who has access to the organization's data.

When you consider that much data activity, it becomes clear how challenging it is to ask security professionals to understand who is accessing all of that data and where all of that data is flowing.

Imagine this traditional data-protection funnel as a data breach kill chain: What data do we have? What is the classification of our data? Who has access? What data left the organization and where did it go? As we've seen, this is a near-insurmountable challenge, unless an organization throws an enormous amount of resources at the problem and executes flawlessly.

Given the above, organizations need to flip their approach to data security upside down and first tackle the data entering and leaving the organization.

Just look at data breaches year after year: In 2019 there were an estimated 3,950 data breaches, up from 2,013 in 2018, according to Verizon's Data Breach Industry Report.

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https://threatpost.com/enterprise-data-security-flip-established-approach/157524/