Security News > 2021 > January > The top 5 reasons data privacy should be practiced every day
It may be Data Privacy Day, but security experts say privacy should become a daily, defined practice affecting almost all aspects of an organization and no longer just a part of compliance, legal, or auditing disciplines.
Here are the top 5 reasons data privacy should be practiced every day.
Breaches in data privacy can have severe consequences for organizations and individuals, as they could lead to expensive follow-up attacks, said Candid Wüest, vice president of cyber protection research at Acronis.
"Maintaining customer as well as employee data privacy both in an out of the office helps insure against risks of social engineering attacks, ransomware attacks, or inadvertent data loss," he said.
"Between the huge amount of sensitive, personal data employers have been collecting to respond to the pandemic and the growing appetite for more sophisticated workforce analytics projects, protecting employee data must be their priority in 2021," she stressed.
"I see mature privacy programs breaking silos between security and risk, data governance, and privacy,'' she said."If a regulatory requirement is to produce real change, it must affect systems, data flows, data itself.