Understanding the difference between data compliance and data security

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• Data compliance and data security are two things
  that modern organizations cannot ignore.
• You need to think differently when you think of
  these two crucial data things. Also, you need to
  understand that data compliance is not data
  security.
• You can take the best data compliance measures
  and it will not solve the data security purpose.
• Over the last two decades, information technology
  has grown immensely and made our lives more
  comfortable and convenient.
• You can order food online, consult doctors
  online,and do many other things while sitting on
  your couch. However, this immense growth has
  brought new security and compliance challenges
  for organizations.
• It is crucial to understand and control how
  companies receive, share, store, and process
  information.
• Every country is coming up with its own set of
  data compliance policies and regulations to keep
  in check data privacy.

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• In basic terms, data compliance and data security
  measures ensure data protection, securing data
  assets, preventing damage, and detecting theft.
• Cybercriminals are also becoming advanced in
  their operations and the way they plan their
  attacks. We keep hearing such data thefts and
  attacks on online blogs and articles.
• Cybersecurity teams need to gear up to handle
  such attacks by strengthening their data security
  measures to prevent any types of data security
  breaches.
• When a company follows compliance frameworks and
  strengthen data security measures, they can
  protect data.
• However, the first thing that companies need to
  understand is the difference between security and
  compliance.

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• What are the Differences between Compliance and
  Security?
• Data compliance
• Data compliance is all about focusing on data
  handling and storing measures taken by a company
  with a different set of regulatory requirements
  such as frameworks applied to its protection.
• There are different types of frameworks are used
  to comply with local or international data
  protection policies and regulations.
• The main goal to achieve here is risk management.
  There are physical, financial, and legal and
  other types of risks involved when you don't
  comply with data protection regulations.
• Data compliance measures oversee different data
  policies, regulations, and laws to ensure risk
  mitigation.
• Also Read What is data compliance and why you
  should think about it?

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• Data security
• Data security is far more crucial than data
  compliance. Here, a company uses a set of
  technical systems, tools, and processes that
  ensure to protect and defend organizational data
  and technology assets.
• Though data compliance is important, it is not
  the primary goal of a data security team. Here, a
  data access hierarchy is made to control who can
  use the data.
• A different set of standardized methodologies and
  tools are used to achieve superior data security.
• Achieving supreme data security is easy compared
  to data compliance that can be multifaceted.
• Conclusion
• When you know how data compliance and data
  security are related, you will be able to achieve
  both objectives. Nowadays, people are getting
  more concerned about how their data is used by
  the companies and what measures they are taking
  for data security. Failing to comply with data
  compliance regulations might hit your business
  reputation negatively and in some cases, in legal
  or financial problems. Leave no stones unturned
  to establish a system that achieves both-data
  security and data compliance goals.

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