As businesses become more aware of the value of data to drive the business, they’re increasingly concerned about securing their data. This means securing sensitive data from threats like natural disasters that can destroy storage devices, and unintentional destruction or deletions by employees. It’s a difficult challenge that requires you to balance three primary concerns: confidentiality, integrity and accessibility.
Secure Technologies and Data Storage
Data storage security is a set of physical, technological and administrative safeguards that shield data and systems against intrusion, tampering and theft. It’s a broad strategy that covers hardware management as well as application development and network security controls. The key to ensuring that storage is secure security is having an extensive security plan that includes clear policies, plans and procedures.
Based on the industry and countries where companies operate, there could be laws that affect data security. PCI-DSS and Sarbanes Oxley are examples. While these regulations set out requirements for security but often leave it up to the company to decide which methods and technology they use to protect their data.
One of the most well-known and well-tested methods for protecting data is encryption, which renders files unreadable without an authorized key. However the cryptographic processing that is required can cause slowdowns in applications and negatively impact performance. That’s why new technologies like Intel(r) Software Guard Extensions help to accelerate encryption and improve security without impacting performance. This allows organizations to have the best of both: enhanced performance, and greater security for data.