Challenges

Your company handles personally identifiable information (PII). Your efforts to Data management must prevent the types of data disasters that in Privacy Rights Clearinghouse to be published. They must comply with industry and government privacy regulations.

Since you cannot eliminate PII, you must discover, protect, and verify that you have protected it. Then you also need to monitor and address data risks in the future.

At the time of protection, technological choices are difficult. Conventional encryption of entire databases, files, hard drives or devices is inefficient (especially in terms of volume), restricts access to non-sensitive data, and is subject to complete disclosure through a single password breach. Many data masking methods are insecure, complex, expensive, or render the protected data unusable for testing.

With current methods, you also won't get support for:

• Assistance with searching, extracting, classifying, or applying rules to data that meets PII criteria.
• An audit trail showing how you managed the risk to force a costly validation.
• A separation of encryption and key management (should be questioned)
• The ability to apply multiple security measures to multiple data sources simultaneously.
• The possibility of combining data protection with other data processing operations.

„Solutions that enable file, database, and application-level encryption offer the highest level of security and allow authorized individuals easy access to information. Decentralized encryption and decryption offer more performance and require less network bandwidth, increase availability by eliminating sources of error, and ensure better protection by transferring data more frequently yet securely.“

Gary Palgon, Enterprise Systems Journal