Abir Thakurta, CISSP
Senior Director, Worldwide Pre-Sales & Professional Services
nuBridges
During one of my recent customer conversations, I was asked what challenges customers typically experience in implementing data security. In our experience we find customers run into two types of challenges: process challenges and technology challenges. Here are some of the more common process challenges.
- Knowing your sensitive information footprint within the enterprise. Many organizations do not have a data classification program or know where their sensitive information resides. Absence of a holistic picture results in islands of data protection that can be challenging to manage and standardize. It also increases the cost of ongoing compliance and management of these solutions. To mitigate this situation, nuBridges Professional Services teams ensure that a sensitive information footprint is generated so an appropriate data protection strategy can be defined.
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Defining a data protection strategy. Traditionally, organizations have viewed security as network or perimeter security. With the proliferation of internal breaches, organizations are beginning to understand the need to protect data at the source.
However, tactical fixes like encrypting data in one database without developing an enterprise data protection strategy can cause issues in the long run. To mitigate this situation, nuBridges Professional Services teams help in developing a data protection strategy that aligns with the business needs before implementations are conducted.
- Working with surrogate data. Studies have revealed that 60% to 70% of processes do not need to work with sensitive data. Rather, surrogate data can be used. Introducing changes to existing processes and requesting business owners to work with surrogate data can be challenging. But working with format-preserving tokens generated by a tokenization solution like nuBridges Protect Token Manager can mitigate this situation
What kind of challenges do you encounter?
In my next blog, we’ll look at technology challenges.
Until next time,
Abir
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