5 Practices for Ensuring Sensitive Information Protection

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5 Practices for Ensuring Sensitive Information
Protection

• Contoural Inc

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• Data protection is a sensitive issue. Despite
  taking several security steps, there is no
  guarantee for 10 sensitive information
  protection. However, you can take several steps
  and measures to minimize the risk of data loss,
  breach or exposure. This article discusses 5
  important practices for improving your sensitive
  information protections. Take a look.

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Quarantine Sensitive Files

• Data protection is a sensitive issue. Despite
  taking several security steps, there is no
  guarantee for 10 sensitive information
  protection. However, you can take several steps
  and measures to minimize the risk of data loss,
  breach or exposure. This article discusses 5
  important practices for improving your sensitive
  information protections. Take a look.

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Behavior-Based Permissions

• Limiting data access is another step to protect
  sensitive information from falling into wrong
  hands. Grant data access to only relevant people
  because overly permissive behavior is another
  common mistake, as a lot of people have access to
  data than is necessary. By granting data access
  to only relevant and responsible people, you can
  narrow down the search in case of data
  compromise. A convoluted web of temporary access
  and permissions quickly arises, with individuals
  having access to data that they shouldnt.
• Limiting data access can also be done using
  software that profiles user behavior and
  automatically grants data access to appropriate
  behavior-based people via an entitlement review.

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Prepare for Cyber Threats

• Adopting a realistic approach will prepare you
  for challenges lying ahead. Realizing that
  anything can happen and data might fall into bad
  hands is the first step towards good data
  management. Data security is all about thinking
  ahead, and having a proactive approach. This
  would make you want to have a solid cyber
  security policy that incorporates existing and
  potential future threats to your data. A good
  data security plan addresses both external
  threats and internal vulnerabilities. Other than
  your data security policy, employ software that
  provides real-time monitoring and alerts of
  suspicious activities.

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Delete Unused Data

• Keeping stale or unrequired data for a long time
  presents significant data challenges in terms of
  data security. If you have been storing sensitive
  data, which is no longer required, it is
  recommended to dispose of that data using
  processes and technologies, so that it does
  affect ongoing business activities. The last
  thing you would want is a huge heap of data that
  you dont require in future, and youre even
  unaware of its existence falling prey to hackers.

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Capabilities and Solutions

• Other than the right technologies and good cyber
  security practices, your business should also
  adopt the following business process capabilities
  and solutions to ensure data security.

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Knowing Where Data Lives

• Knowing the destination and location of your data
  is important for the safety of data. It does not
  only encompass the data youre currently using,
  but also the stale data that should be deleted or
  retired. Make sure you have the right
  technologies and processes in place to give you
  clear idea about your data location at all times.

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Tracking User Access

• One of the biggest dangers to data security is
  internal personnel gaining access to data that
  they shouldnt. Therefore, youll need to track
  user access to ensure only the right people are
  accessing the most sensitive data.

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Blocking High-Risk Activities

• Various data handling actions have different
  levels of sensitivities. Employees can engage in
  high-risk data activities and data transfer
  without realizing its vulnerability to get
  hacked. They can send sensitive information in a
  non-encrypted format via email. You must have
  protective systems and software in place to block
  all high-risk activities.

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Contoural Inc

• To ensure sensitive information protection, and
  to select the right technologies for your data
  protection, get in touch with our data experts.
  Being in the industry for more than a decade, we
  know the measures which will minimize the data
  loss risks.

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