More Breaches
Headlines announcing massive exposures of personal information show that hackers are keeping up with the trends of the masses, following the data trail to the cloud too; statistics show they are focusing their attention on the private information and intellectual property that commands a higher price on the black market than credit card and financial data. Sensitive data is valuable data and will always be under threat of breach by nefarious internal operatives, cyber criminals, nation-state hackers and even government intrusion. Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers to offer native security, there is still more that can be done. Forward-thinking, responsible data custodians are taking steps to mitigate the impact of a breach by combining traditional and native security practices with a data-centric approach to protecting the data itself, at rest and in motion, enterprise wide.