- 21 Eki 2015
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Data Security
Today, data protection has become very important for both companies and individuals. In this article, I talked about what we should do, what we should pay attention to.
Hackers have begun to increase their attacks as technology advances and more companies go digital. This creates major financial problems for companies. These events do not damage both the company's money and its credibility, but also risk the information of its customers.
It used to be easier for companies. Because you only had one thing to worry about. That was your vault where you kept the data. At first, data was stored only in paper copies. That's why the security issue wasn't so important. However, with the digitalizing world, data security has become an important issue.
What is Data Security?
Data security is measures taken to prevent unauthorized access of data. The most important point in the protection of data is to ensure its confidentiality, protect integrity and access data whenever we want. Companies are trying their best to provide these 3 subjects to their customers in the best possible way. Companies are focusing on digitalization to keep up with the new obligation but in doing so, they should also not disrupt security, because there will always be a hacker out there looking for a vulnerability.
The attackers are now moving in this direction because what makes money is data. Hacking the card and using the money in it was both a bit old and dangerous.
3 Important Subjects
We mentioned 3 subjects that companies should do to ensure data security. Lets talk about these subjects.
Confidentiality: Prevent data from being accessed by people who do not have permission.
Different encryption methods are applied to do this. As companies have become digital, their products are now data and will do everything to protect it. Some large companies keep their data on offline servers to protect it. This prevents attackers from accessing the data over the internet. Of course, this makes subject 3 a bit difficult, but it raises security to the highest level. We can't apply this method to all the data.
Integrity: While we care about data confidentiality, we need to make no changes to the data itself.
Data itself is a product. If the product changes, it has no value, which will cause great damage to the company.
Accessibility: It is important that data is accessible at any time.
We've encrypted the data, equipped it with the most powerful protections, but if we can't access it when we want to, and we can't use that, data is useless. It's very important that we access the data no matter how secure we protect it.
What Can Be Done To Protect It?
Even the slightest gap is enough for attackers to enter the system. This increases the cost of jobs considerably. Companies are hiring various security experts to find these gaps and trying to test their systems. However despite these, their systems can still be hacked. This brings to mind the most fundamental thing, the employee. Because even though the system didn't have a flaw, how did the attackers do it? As long as there are people in the system, it can be hacked.
For companies, just because the system was strong didn't mean anything anymore. Companies have to strengthen both sides. Therefore, they constantly train their employees and managers in cyber security so that they do not experience a major security breach. Whether it's social engineering, fishing attacks, attackers try every way. By training employees on this, they ensure that they fend off these attacks.
Conclusion:
We must store data, encrypt it, but not disrupt its integrity. While doing all these, we have to reach whenever we want. If we secure the system, all that remains is to inform the employees. If we raise awareness of this issue, we reduce the danger a little bit. Companies have started to invest in this issue and provide training but the longer they delay, the more their cost to the company will increase.
Thanks for reading!
