Data Protection is an Imperative Step to Drive Business Growth
The steady progress towards digitization with the Government of India’s programs like Digital India, cashless economy; the mushrooming of e-commerce industry and the digitization of organizations across sizes and verticals is generating unprecedented amount of data daily. Being one of the most important components for the growth and success of any business, data is the most valued asset of any organization. With the surge in the number cyber threats and its impact on business, data protection has become the need of the hour.
Data protection should be equally applicable in both the public and the private sectors. Personal information is being held by both the Government and private players such telecom companies and banks. Complaint mechanisms need to be defined wherever personal data is involved. It is very important to ensure that personal data is not kept longer than necessary and to do so time limits should be established by the controller for complete deletion of data. Every reasonable step should be taken to ensure that personal data is secure which will leave less space for any potential data breach.
As per the key findings of the 2016 edition of the Global Data Protection Index, IT Transformation requires information security and governance through sound data protection. It also reveals that the vast majority of organizations are still behind the curve in data protection readiness. Cloud protection is definitely an important aspect of any strategy undertaken by an organization. Whether your applications are on-premises, extending to the cloud, have been moved to the cloud, or are born in the cloud, they require the same level of protection.
For applications that are extending to the cloud, leverage the elasticity, agility and low cost of private or public cloud storage for long-term retention and disaster recovery. Cloud protection solutions protects your data no matter where it is in the cloud. Bringing together protection storage and software, including powerful search, monitoring and analytics, provides coverage for a wide range of applications, both physical and virtual in delivering efficient and high performance protection and recovery solutions, also extending data protection seamlessly to public and private cloud.
We have witnessed organizations being open to embrace digital transformation. And in order to do so one must ensure a smooth transition into a cloud environment along with the deployment of robust security solutions.
