Everyone cringes when they hear of a laptop loaded with healthcare or retirement data being left in a cab or a batch of credit card numbers being hacked. While it's high profile data loss and data breach events like these that grab the headlines, data loss occurs in many other less visible, but no less pernicious, ways as well. As regulated industries automate their processes, securing sensitive data and preventing data loss becomes that much more critical.

Data loss and data leakage encompass many other aspects of securing your business systems, like risk management, monitoring and alerting. Every step of the process is essential to assembling a comprehensive approach to data loss prevention. This applies to more than industries like healthcare or finance that regularly deal in sensitive data. Any industry that gathers and manages sensitive personal data as part of its business activities must pay careful attention to keeping that data secure.

From the moment data is captured by an operator working on the system to the moment an order goes out for a prescription or a stock trade, that data must be carefully guarded for what it is -- a business-critical resource. It's an ethical imperative. It's a legal imperative. It's a business imperative.

         

 

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