Beyond the perimeter: The shift to data-centric protection | TechTarget
The traditional network perimeter has effectively disappeared, creating a major data security problem for CISOs and their teams.
Organizations today operate across on-premises, multi-cloud, API and edge systems with no fixed boundaries. Data traverses SaaS platforms and cloud services, remote user systems, APIs and partner ecosystems, changing the data security game. SaaS sprawl, shadow IT and API-driven integrations only make the data security challenge more difficult.
Simply put, data protection has moved from perimeter security to distributed, lifecycle-based controls. Organizations must unify governance, encryption, tokenization and policy-based access into a single operating model to protect the organization's data, maintain resilience, meet compliance obligations and retain the performance that employees and customers expect.
The focus must shift from infrastructure security to data-centric protection, where identity and context -- not location -- determine access decisions. This requires applying consistent controls where data is created, stored, shared or processed.
Governance, visibility and data...
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