Do you know where you are most vulnerable? Now is the time to check these key trends:

1. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
2. Privacy
3. Insider Threat
4. Security Gaps
5. Remote Workforce
6. Third-Party Collaboration

1. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environment

According to Flexera’s “State of the Cloud, 2020 Report”, organizations use an average of 2.2 public and private cloud providers. This exposes your data to the following risks:

Identity and Access Management (IAM): You may have heard the phrase, “identity is the new perimeter”. This “new perimeter” is the intersection of users, devices, and cloud services. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing regulations, many companies across the globe have had to reconsider how much access their employees have to their systems, applications, and data.

Security: Educate your Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), IT security, and Human Resources (HR) teams on the latest risks and make sure they have the data-centric tools they need to combat them. Ultimately, a breach will significantly impact your organization’s reputation and finances.

Data Residency: Data Residency: Cloud environments are boundless and can be located anywhere in the world. Legal and regulatory requirements are imposed on data in the country or region it resides. Review where your sensitive unstructured data is stored (on or off-premise) and make updates accordingly.

SOLUTION CONSIDERATION : A data-centric approach identifies files and secures them in a centralized management system to provide consistency across all channels. Using discovery tools helps locate your data and classifies it with specific tags to control their cloud location.

2. Privacy

Today’s privacy regulations demand greater visibility and control over an individual’s data.
Regulation types include:

• Responding to the Rights of Individuals: Regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) give individuals greater rights to their personal data. Data subject and consent rights must be associated with all information
  collected on an individual.
• Access and Revoke: Every file access (system and user) must be traced for data collected. Individuals can elect how and when their data is used. The “right to be forgotten” requires total removal of all data and most transactions. Your organization’s staffing department must
  respond promptly to any individual privacy and audit requests. Breach notifications timelines are tightened (GDPR and CCPA is 72 hours).

SOLUTION CONSIDERATION : Deep visibility tools accumulate access information during the entire lifecycle of the sensitive unstructured data. You should avoid traditional tools that provide limited visibility and require forensic action to search log files

3. Insider Threat

While external threats from hackers and cybercriminals make the headlines, trusted insiders can pose a greater threat to your sensitive unstructured data. A traditional security infrastructure focuses on external threats using firewalls, anti-malware, intrusion detection, and other security solutions. These solutions may not prevent an employee, contractor or third party vendor with access from sharing it with unauthorized users.