Security News > 2023 > December > Aim for a modern data security approach

Like the modern data architecture itself, a modern data security approach must be flexible, scalable, and able to support numerous hybrid data ecosystems so that consumers can use multiple data consumption approaches.

The need to implement flexible and scalable data security before data lands in the cloud data warehouse is forcing many data teams to adopt a "Shift left" approach to data security where data is safeguarded early in its journey from the source system.

Originally designed for software engineers to continuously monitor and test early in software development lifecycles, shift left data security addresses potential data security issues sooner in the data journey.

By identifying, preventing, and tackling data governance and security measures earlier, and to the left of the cloud data warehouse, teams can initiate the strong access governance and security capabilities already available on cloud data warehouses and extend them back to data as it leaves source systems.

Instead of being confined to data quality or data reliability, security needs to become another use case application of the underlying data and be unified into the rest of the data observability subsystem.

The "Shift left" approach for data management is the new north star for data quality, observability, and now data security.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/12/08/shift-left-data-security/