Security News > 2024 > July > Discover the growing threats to data security

The first step to managing data security risks is to identify and understand what data you have.

Without this level of data visibility, managing data security risks is impossible, because data has no rules.

To make a meaningful impact on reducing data security risks, you need to ensure that your organization has the shortest MTTD/MTTR possible across all data.

A continuous and comprehensive data inventory, coupled with robust monitoring tools and automation, helps ensure that security teams can keep up with the ever-changing threats on data easily, even as that data is created, shared, and used everywhere.

Understanding new data types and contexts is particularly important because it helps you implement appropriate security measures and address data privacy concerns as new regulations emerge.

Finally, for more advanced programs, enterprises can reduce data security risk proactively by pursuing the principle of least privilege initiatives to ensure that only those who require data have access to it, reducing the overall data risk surface, by hardening data to make it more resistant to unauthorized access, and identifying core IP assets to ensure that they are appropriately protected.

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