This Halloween, make sure your sensitive data Is wearing a mask
If you work in cybersecurity for long enough, you learn that we really love an analogy or a metaphor and come October you can barely move for talk of security nightmares, cyber monsters and threats lurking in the shadows.
I enjoy a good analogy as much as anyone, but there’s one Halloween comparison I don't hear very often. And, for data security at least, I think it might be the most useful one right now: the mask.
A mask doesn't make what's underneath disappear. It simply means you don't have to reveal its true identity to everyone who encounters it, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve with sensitive data.
VP of Data Security Products at cybersecurity company Thales.
Developers need data to test applications, analysts need it to find patterns, and AI toolsand agents increasingly need access to enterprise information to do useful work. But needing to use...
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