What is Data Protection? And what are the techniques to achieve Data Protection?
Data protection is the process of safeguarding valuable information assets of an organization from disclosure, compromise, corruption, tampering or unauthorized destruction. The data of an organization is one of its highly valuable asset and deserves at most protection from internal and external threat actors. Moreover, protecting the data and ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and available (CIA) goes a long way in safeguarding the entire IT and business functions of the organization.
Some of the most commonly used modern data protection methods may include one or more of the following:
- Disaster Recovery
- Robust Backups and Restoration
- Data Loss Protection (DLP)
- Erasure Coding
- Digital Right Management (DRM)
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
- Encryption
- Access Controls
- Proper Data Destruction
- Risk Assessment
- Pseudonymisation