Data is King. Protecting your data comes in many forms. Your confidential document shredding specialist will securely destroy any sensitive documents. Data protection is equally important as data destruction. IBM are a leading High Tech company and provide you with relevant information and software to improve your security.
IBM Security solutions for data security and privacy provide a holistic approach that helps prevent data loss while enabling data access to support business operations, growth and innovation. These solutions help you ensure regulatory compliance, defend against internal and external attacks, and can lower storage and data management costs.
IBM Security solutions for data security and privacy enable a layered approach to achieving data security that helps you:
- Understand and classify sensitive data: Understand where data resides, how it is related and how to define security and privacy policies. What data is sensitive and what data is not must be established.
- Assess vulnerabilities: Detect database vulnerabilities and harden repositories. Be aware of paper data is stored. Add a lock to a room or cabinet to add an extra layer of security.
- Monitor and audit: Monitor transactions to enforce policies and capture a detailed audit trail. Any printed documents with sensitive data must be destroyed once the document life cycle is complete.
- Prevent unauthorised database activities: Block, quarantine or mask transactions that violate policy. With paper data limit who can access sensitive data management or senior staff.
- Protect sensitive data: Encrypt structured and unstructured sensitive data, mask or redact sensitive data in documents and forms, and encrypt data in storage.
- Manage access: Manage privileges and authenticate users to limit data access.
IBM also provide a free software for you to assess and detect vulnerabilities. The software will detect weak passwords, any misconfiguration on your database. Read more about it here: https://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/security-guardium-vulnerability-assessment
While IBM methods deal with digital data the crossovers and similarities can be applied to your paper data. Paper shredding services will also offer digital data protection and knowledge. Knowing these risks and implementing the steps to prevent a data breach will benefit your business or organisation in the long run.
Technology terminology can be confusing to understand but implementing security measures for digital devices is pretty straight forward. For more information on a data protection and security please contact us or visit our site for more information.
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