What Are the Different Types of Data Safety?
Data security is the combination of procedures, policies and tools that protect data from unauthorised access or manipulation. Secure data security also safeguards important data and ensures it is properly removed when the organization does not require it anymore. It also helps companies meet legal and compliance requirements including data protection laws like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI DSS, and prevents costly lawsuits, settlements and reputational damage due to malicious or unintentional actions such as mistakes made by employees and ransomware attacks.
Authentication refers to the method of identifying people accurately before they can access or manipulate data. This typically includes using passwords, PIN numbers, swipe cards, biometrics and other methods to verify identities before allowing access to data. It is also important to keep a record of all user activities and to establish controls to restrict who can access data and/or share it, as well as to monitor and detect any unusual or suspicious activity that could indicate an attack.
The classification of data helps organizations to prioritize and organize data by its degree of importance. It’s important to know what data you gather, and only utilize information that’s necessary to your business goals and operations. It’s equally important to have a clearly defined strategy to ensure that you are able to access and retrieve information in the event of a system failure or natural disaster, or even a data breach. This usually means keeping full backups, including differential and increments of critical data in locations physically separated from your original storage device and networking.
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