It’s time for a unified approach to securing data, applications, and the edge

2021-12-30 05:30

Organizations usually manage the security of data, applications and edge computing from disparate technologies and across different teams.

Increasingly, sophisticated attacks start at the edge or application layers and move laterally to the data layer without detection.

Only if organizations begin to take a unified approach and combine data-centric threat mitigation with protecting all the paths to their data, will they be able to stop complex attacks.

Choosing a solution that unifies insights from the edge to applications and data stores will now be the difference between identifying a problem before it becomes a breach and learning of it after it becomes headline news.

Data leakage - incidents in which data was transmitted from an organization's corporate network to an external destination, whether accidentally or deliberately - increased 557% over the past 12 months and are up 74% since the beginning of 2021.

Only when organizations have the ability to analyze activity from its initial entry through applications to its end at structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data stores, can they stop today's sophisticated attacks.

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