How to handle private data effectively?

How to handle private data effectively?

Data privacy remains one of the biggest concerns for companies. Increasingly, there is a need to ensure that information shared by customers, suppliers and partners remains private and secure. Another point that increases the need for greater information protection is the increased number and sophistication of attacks and hackers, who can easily access a system and clone or erase all information. In this article, we will understand how we can handle private data effectively.

Do not use public networks

We should not connect our devices to public networks such as airports and hotels. You should never enter important personal data when you are connected to such a network. If you are out of the office and need to access important information, you should always use a VPN connection. A virtual private network (VPN) is a type of private connection that uses a public network to access your business data. Contains connection encryption that prevents data interception and IP tracking. This is the safest way to access company data over public networks and should be the only way the company allows employees to access corporate email outside the internal network.

Control access and shares

It is essential that all access to external (sites, FTPs, etc.) and internal (shares) content have some control, if possible using each user’s unique credentials. In this way, the company can know who accesses what and ensures greater protection to your information.

Use a protection program

Tools like Datapeers help you ensure the privacy of your data. Technological evolution has transformed the value of data that is today the most important asset of any organization, because it is through data that managers analyze consumer behavior and make important decisions for the future of companies. Through sophisticated data masking techniques, Datapeers ensures the privacy and protection of information in all environments.

Be proactive

Even if you use all the precautionary measures, nothing can guarantee you that your company will not be attacked. For this reason, the best solution is prevention through a disaster recovery solution. A disaster recovery solution is a very complete process that guarantees data protection and recovery in case of failure. Backup is part of disaster recovery, but it is only one of its components. Disaster recovery is a very complete solution since in addition to copying the data also ensures its restoration efficiently in case of natural disasters or infrastructure failures. This type of solution has as a great objective to eliminate (or at least to minimize in large scale) the downtime of a company due to failures. RAAS is a disaster recovery service totally managed by specialized equipment and gives you the possibility to recover a virtual server in seconds.