19 Aug
Traditional methods of securing data are no longer effective as cloud-based infrastructure forces stakeholders to seek out innovations and new offerings. In addition, recent cybersecurity changes have arisen because of new threats to your data.
The time is long past due for when a claim is made about the outcome of a particular technology that it is validated and confirmed before adoption. Big-name brand, or the new kid on the block, innovation lives everywhere – but innovation doesn’t always mean value. Unfortunately, the steak often doesn’t match the sizzle.
Why Do We Need Cybersecurity Changes?
In the 20 or so years since data protection and cybersecurity went from a cottage industry to the economic juggernaut it now is, nothing much has changed. In fact, thousands of ‘solutions’ later from the names we know best and those that have come after, things have gotten even worse.
It’s time that business leaders, financial officers, and data security practitioners – CEOs, CFOs, CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, CDOs take a tough look without blinders at the effectiveness of their current security tools and data governance processes and procedures.
Suppose these do not include a datacentric component that protects data at the data level (not the file level) and concurrently controls data access without user involvement. The outcome is that data is ripe for the taking – completely vulnerable to breach, ransomware, loss, and manipulation.
Consider also that the most significant security risk your organization often faces comes from the friendly face, the trusted vendor, or increasingly intentional actions by employees to exfiltrate data for personal or nefarious purposes. And no matter where the attack comes from, the result will cost time and money for your business.
Another threat cited in recent industry reports is the escalation of supply chain attacks. We learned from the SolarWinds attack and the more recent Kaseya attack that we have much work to do. By ‘we,’ I mean the public and private sectors.
In tandem. With strategic and tactical abandon. In between lie billions of direct and indirect access routes to where our most vital data lies. A malicious actor only needs one, while we’ve been fooling ourselves into thinking we can whack-a-mole our way to defeating these adversaries with a defensive security posture.
Without the proper cybersecurity changes, our attackers will continue to be leaps and bounds ahead of us.
How You Can Protect Yourself From Cyber Attacks
These attacks and those that will come are not unique indicators of increasingly multiplying methods and means of attack to our most precious resource: the data that creates the uniqueness, identity, and value of our businesses and the security of our nation. The danger here needs no further explanation.
If we are always catching up (like we currently are), we will never win the battles, never mind the war. This is why promoting cybersecurity changes has become so important.
The disruption caused by the pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon either. In fact, as health risks, ebb and flow, consolidating off-site and on-site operations that have changed permanently during 2020 to date is another piece of the security puzzle that requires serious attention.
It’s fair to say that granular data control and eradication of data compromise are highly sought-after outcomes. Checking regulatory compliance boxes may provide a sense of being in control, but there isn’t a CEO, CISO, CTO, or CFO that isn’t awake in the night. So knowing those boxes is an illusion.
STASH Global is awake with you. We have the solutions that will help us all get some rest.
Contact me directly here. Put the word ‘HELP’ in the subject line. I promise we will.
Janine Darling
Chief Executive Officer
Stash Global Inc.
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