Security News > 2023 > February > Storage security toughen-up for compliance and cyberwar in 2023

It's a challenge for IT security chiefs because unstructured data's decentralized nature makes it harder to maintain effective and consistent security controls that govern access to it.

"Concepts of best practice in data storage have evolved rapidly since the SolarWinds hack," says Kevin Noreen, Senior Product Manager - Unstructured Data Storage Security at Dell Technologies.

"Streamed entertainment data is also highly saleable. So effective security while that data, at rest or inflight, is being managed is now totally critical."

Dell's second 2023 prediction is that commercial entities will find themselves scathed by cyberwar offensives if geopolitical conflicts cause renewed cyber offensives from nation state sponsored threat actors - especially as they probe the effectiveness of new governmental regulatory security compliance frameworks.

Noreen adds: "Another thing we believe will step-up in 2023 is the notion of zero trust, and also resiliency borne of enhanced systems that 'patrol' data assets in order to detect attacks before they've had the opportunity to cause damage. These will be cybersecurity gamechangers."

The combined benefits of enhanced security built into storage platforms, plus compliance with emergent regulatory mandates, will remediate longstanding cybersecurity weak links in supply chains in 2023, Dell predicts.

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