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Take an information life cycle approach to data protection.
In today's economic climate where merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is on the rise and layoffs are getting more common, having a comprehensive data protection plan is all the more important, yet for many it remains an elusive goal.
Encryption is a good first step toward data protection, but it will not guard against insider abuse or access control violations. A much more comprehensive but time-consuming strategy will focus on the process of managing the data life cycle, starting from classification and ending with disposal. It will augment that process by deploying tools for areas such as access control, data protection, and data leakage. Lastly and most importantly, the strategy should provide adequate user security awareness and training to ensure that the users become the first line of defense.
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Develop a multi-faceted strategy to combat online threats.
The underground cybercrime economy is booming, with estimated revenues in billions of dollars. In this environment, you will need to develop a comprehensive approach including people, process, and technology controls. You need to train people to surf responsibly, implement processes to ensure that security violations and breaches are prevented, and deploy technology to provide the air cover by ensuring that applications and networks don't have vulnerabilities and are not behaving abnormally or transmitting data that they shouldn't.
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Meet the connectivity and mobility requirements of business.
Business mobility, in the form of smartphones, laptops, tablets, and ultramobile PCs, is a current reality and will only intensify as businesses rush to empower their employees and increase their efficiency and productivity.
Increasingly, businesses also expect IT to provide secure connectivity to an increasingly global workforce—where workers are crossing continents and collaborating across all geographies. The complexity and severity of threats has multiplied significantly from the past, and if security takes a haphazard approach to addressing this, the potential rewards (and savings) of mobility may be negated by the additional risk it poses.
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