‘It is important to define data protection program’

By TECHx News Desk

Data protection is priority for any growing business today. There are multiple ways of going about it but bringing all aspects of security on one platform is critical, especially when employees are increasingly working from home.

“It is important to define data protection program and have a unifying platform in place in order to beef up data security,” said Vishal Gupta, Founder and CEO of award-winning Seclore.

“Data protection is critical for any enterprise these days, and data-centric security and rights management are key to survival and growth of any business,” he told TECHx Media.

“The unifying data-centric security platform can provide a single pane of glass view of all data protection initiatives within the company and beyond,” he added.

Seclore is one of the largest specialist providers of data-centric security platforms and rights management systems. It won the award for Best Data Protection Vendor at CISO50 & Future Security Awards 2021.

“Enterprises have typically taken a broken approach to data security i.e. deploying a specific technology like DLP or Classification and then adding more things like encryption or rights management without a unifying system to manage the program. This means that individual technologies become silos which don’t work or integrate with each other and the enterprise does not get end-to-end visibility of its data protection program,” said Gupta.

For enterprises today, data has become like oil i.e. the most valuable asset.

“Unfortunately the data is also free flowing and tough to control. Enterprises are today in a constant data chase where they are chasing data from endpoint devices, networks, applications, cloud, phones and third parties. This has become a nearly impossible chase. Securing every endpoint and every application within the enterprise and with third parties is an impossible goal. Enterprises are realising this and moving their security initiatives to data.”

More and more enterprises are moving collaboration to the cloud. It starts with email but quickly extends to other forms of collaboration, specifically M365. “One of the challenges with cloud-based collaboration technologies is that the data security is directly dependent on security of the cloud infrastructure on which enterprises have no control and little visibility. With data-centric security that follows the data, enterprises can regain control of the data going to the cloud and ensure that even if there is a breach of the cloud service, the enterprise data does not get compromised,” said Gupta.

Seclore’s customers include some of the world’s largest organisations like American Express, General Motors, ICICI, Allianz and Prudential besides numerous government and defence establishments. Within the Middle East, Saudi Telecom, Etimad, Oman Data Park, PIF, Smart Dubai, Red Sea and KFUPM, etc., rely on Seclore to protect their most confidential information, said Gupta.