Top 4 strategies to protect your data

A data protection strategy refers to a set of measures and practices designed to safeguard data from unauthorized access, breaches, or loss. With cyberthreats growing in volume and sophistication, having a data protection strategy in place is instrumental in protecting your business from financial losses, legal repercussions, and reputational damage.

Data privacy 101

Data privacy is a core principle of data security that concerns the correct handling of data with respect to consent and regulations. It is intimately connected to data security; one cannot exist without the other.

In a nutshell, practical data privacy revolves around three core concepts:

Whether data is shared with third parties, and how;

How information is legally collected and stored; and

Data privacy standards and legislation that cover a particular region.

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