The document emphasizes the importance of data-centric security for enterprises, highlighting the increasing frequency of data breaches despite rising security spending. It advocates for a shift from infrastructure-focused to data-focused security strategies that protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, regardless of its location or context. Key benefits include automated data protection, robust defense against breaches, and flexibility for users while maintaining security and compliance.

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Why Data-Centric Security Needs to be a Top Priority
for Enterprises
In today’s business world, data is one of the most valuable assets that any company can own. As a result, a
significant amount of effort and money is spent ensuring that the most effective data security procedures are in
place to safeguard it. However, with so many choices, deciding which path to choose is getting increasingly
difficult.
Despite significant increases in data security spending, the frequency of data breaches continues to rise. The risks
are shifting as well, due to ongoing changes in how and where work is done, owing in part to mobile device usage
and the expansion of cloud computing. The strategies used to counteract those risks are also evolving.
Gaps in data security and knowledge are at the heart of today’s most serious threats. To remain ahead of these
attacks, businesses must continue to engage and educate employees about growing ingenuity of threat actors, as
well as develop a strategy that focuses on securing actual data throughout its lifecycle rather than just the
infrastructure that surrounds it.
This is where a data-centric strategy can help. Solutions to comprehend, manage, and secure sensitive data,
whether in the cloud or on-premises, are part of a data-centric security architecture. This goes far beyond the
infrastructure-focused data security protections that most companies now have in place, ensuring that data is
safeguarded wherever it moves.
Here are a few reasons why a data-centric security strategy is crucial:
Data protection is automated
When a file is added or modified on the network, a data-centric security method helps automate data protection by
scanning it automatically. The system will then assign a policy depending on the data type and classification, as
well as its protection level.
Because this is done in the background, there is very little possibility for human error.
By Prangya Pandab - May 11, 2022

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Data will be protected in the event of a breach
Even if the network has already been infiltrated, data-centric security provides a strong defense on its own.
Therefore, it can prevent hackers from gaining access to confidential data. This can help with disaster recovery,
minimize risk and reduce impact to the operation.
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Flexible and mobile protection
The biggest benefit of data-centric security is that the data is safeguarded rather than the server or network on
which it is stored. And it will provide that protection regardless of who interacts with it or where it is housed within
a system or device.
Closing security gaps with a data-centric approach
Keeping sensitive data safe in the face of escalating cyber threats necessitates a shift away from a traditional
infrastructure-centric security strategy to one that focuses on safeguarding the data itself.
Enterprises require a reliable solution to secure, track, and exchange any type of data, regardless of where it is
stored or moved, or how it travels, with strong policy enforcement, encryption, and access restrictions. Employees
can communicate freely while maintaining a high level of security and visibility, and data-centric security solutions
can remove access to sensitive material that has been shared inadvertently. Data can also be managed with
access privileges and decrypted if the individual receiving the data is approved by adding a cloud-based tether.
Data is the lifeblood of today’s businesses, but it slows them down when it’s locked down too tightly. When
companies use file-level security, sensitive data is protected throughout its life cycle, no matter where it goes,
where it’s stored or who has it. Data is safeguarded in motion, in use, or at rest both outside and inside the
company by adding extra levels of data-centric security, giving the peace of mind businesses need to function
confidently and compliantly in any situation.
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Prangya Pandab
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Prangya Pandab is an Associate Editor with OnDot Media. She is a seasoned journalist with almost
seven years of experience in the business news sector. Before joining ODM, she was a journalist with
CNBC-TV18 for four years. She also had a brief stint with an infrastructure finance company working for
their communications and branding vertical.