Data Leak Prevention – Are Enterprise On The Right Path?

A hacker in mask or hacker in a hoodie are symbols identical to privacy breaches. Each of them supports the general view that violations are committed when malicious outsiders avoid preventive controls and the detection to steal sensitive information.

This looks true, because when the researcher found the quarterly report of the Australian Data Abuse Information Commissioner (CATO) that human error continued to cause nearly one-third of them reported data violations.

Many of these data leak prevention can easily be avoided. In fact, the numbers that can be associated with errors tend to be higher if we assume that external attackers are exploiting internal errors to access the data. Errors include system configuration errors, weak system password usage, or poorly stored or shared data in the cloud.

In addition to bad insiders, this error is often committed by trusted users who make simple and avoidable mistakes. Insiders represent a significant risk to data security. An employee who sends documents relating to his work to his personal account by e-mail on weekends may have good intentions. However, this poses an extraordinary threat to confidential data. Cloud tools offer significant financial benefits, flexibility, and productivity, but also facilitate data sharing with unauthorized people without appropriate security solutions and practices.

Thus, the windows and doors are left open by the players of the home team. Can general cybersecurity be improved if internal threats are not taken properly dealt with?

Just like a firewall for applications, storage, and data, the IT team must be equipped with the appropriate security tools to properly use cloud services. Unfortunately, some companies mistakenly believe that cloud service providers are doing everything in their power to ensure the security of enterprise data in the cloud.

This is not a problem. While cloud service providers need to ensure that the underlying infrastructure and core processes are inherently secure behind their cloud offerings, cloud-based companies need to ensure they have secure access to those of the cloud, the stored data.

This is called a shared responsibility security model. This means that cloud service providers are responsible for the security of the cloud, while the companies that use their services are responsible for security in the cloud. It means the companies that use cloud service have a big responsibility to ensure data leak prevention. Therefore, they must take steps to ensure that their data are truly protected from threats, including malicious and negligent ones.

Unfortunately, many companies go to the cloud without taking their responsibilities seriously (or even knowing it). Poorly stored and shared data, as well as poorly configured cloud systems, can be widely used in business without IT knowledge. This is often due to the fact that they use tools that are no longer sufficient in the cloud environment, even if they are never exhaustive.

Conventional IT hardware like computers and other devices used for cyberspace security do not extend to the cloud because employees and data have moved away from their location. The devices used to access this data are not managing devices. In other words, there may still be ditches and suspension bridges, but the people and the castle have moved away.

It goes without saying that it is necessary to change the way companies approach security by focusing on identity, data and the cloud, and not on the endpoint or network boundary.

As a result, companies that use SaaS and IaaS tools contact Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) to gain visibility and control over their data. CASB can enable the introduction of secure and fast cloud services with comprehensive data protection, threat protection, identity and access management, and visibility management. All of this is defined from a dashboard and applied consistently to business units.

Data leak prevention is when organizations store data in the cloud, allow personal devices to access data, and keep users out of the firewall, IT department needs to ensure visibility and control anytime, anywhere to reduce risk of the data breach. It is important to protect sensitive information from external threats, prevent data loss, and prevent users from making avoidable mistakes, and bad decisions.