Organizations throughout the world are concentrating on tactical and strategic data security activities in response to the huge increase in data theft due to breaches and the threat of cyberattacks from ongoing wars. Here are six best practices for improving security and protecting sensitive personal data that you can vision into a reality now.
Your usual routine
Using the credentials of an authorized client, threat actors can gain access to databases containing sensitive personal data. The perpetrator thus becomes a threat from within. Insider threats accounted for 58% of sensitive data security events in 2022. Internal employees and business colleagues are granted valid authorized user accounts by an external threat actor who has compromised perimeter restrictions.
Information systems must be profiled and monitored for known users accessing unknown sources to mitigate this risk. Because it’s much easier to spot unusual, potentially malicious access behaviour if you’ve established what is routine use parameters for authorized users. Multi-factor authentication is a simple way to protect yourself from malicious activity. According to Microsoft, having two forms of identification like an email address and mobile number will help to shelter you from serious cyber-attacks and that must be a part of this security procedure because with this 99.9% of overall attacks on accounts are prevented.
Know where your data is stored
According to Imperva’s Lessons Learned from analyzing 100 breaches, roughly 75% of the material stolen includes sensitive personal data. Despite this, 54% of firms have no idea where their sensitive data is stored, and 65% say they have too much data to filter through and evaluate. Identifying and monitoring sensitive data could assist detect a data breach. Imperva offers a simple and affordable approach to safeguarding your company’s data.
The principle of least privilege
Every type of company has been affected by the Great Resignation, which has resulted in massive staff turnover. This is one of the most important (and easy) cybersecurity principles: A user’s access to data and systems should be limited to what is required for their job. As employees depart and are replaced, jobs are rearranged, and businesses must reassess data access permissions. Data breaches can be avoided or mitigated by identifying who has access to sensitive data and limiting rights to the bare minimum.
Make a password policy and stick to it
In one recent breach, fraudsters gained access to the system by using the simple term “Password.” To detect potential data breaches, organizations must maintain strict password standards and monitor asset log-in occurrences.
Avoid making mistakes
Attackers like the “Opportunist,” according to 100 Lessons Learned Inside, take what they can and flee. Rather than looking for additional databases or breaking into the organization’s network, these attackers simply take what they can and sell it to the highest bidder. An attacker who obtains a genuine user’s credentials may attempt to access 20x or 100x the total count of records that a legitimate user regularly accesses in a particular time period. Attackers are always trying to understand the user’s behavior to detect data breaches.
Create closure in the breach-detection gap
“The most critical period in mitigating damage from a data breach is the time from when a breach is made to when it is detected,” says my colleague Jason Zongker. Reducing that interval is critical to limiting the attackers’ options in locating and exfiltrating data.“ A good data security solution detects potential policy violations before they occur and helps to improve performance on a daily basis. Streamline threat containment and remediation operations by leveraging data repository visibility, context-rich warnings, and quick incident response procedures. To shorten detection time and prevent continuous data theft, every organization that saves data must have threat detection capabilities.
Despite the fact that no two data breaches are the same, every company should have a system in place that can detect sensitive data, limit access, and recognize regular patterns such as data type and usage.
Data security has been affecting lives for many years and until now we can say it still does. What are your thoughts about it? Share it in the comment section below. We would love to hear from you!
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