Security News > 2022 > August > 6 ways your cloud data security policies are slowing innovation – and how to avoid that

As practically every organization shifts from managing their data in network-based data centers to storing it in the cloud, cloud data security policies are created to secure this data in a cloud environment.

Development teams leverage the benefits of data in the cloud to generate a growing amount of cloud data stores and tools, to keep up with innovation.

Managing organizational access to data may be critical to ensure that it isn't abused or lost but creating stringent access control policies and boundaries around data usage creates what are essentially data silos, once again restricting innovation.

Security teams should view these access policies as opportunities to support collaborative business innovation rather than obstruct it due to their fear of losing control over data.

Removing data from cloud infrastructures as soon as possible has become a common practice for security teams that are increasingly concerned about losing track or control over their data.

Security guardrails and policies for data access and usage are critical for basic security hygiene, but without complementing them with a forward-thinking approach to leveraging this data, your business will quickly become irrelevant.

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