It sometimes feels like we are living in the age of the reboot. If you’re a fan of the hit TV show “That 70’s Show,” you know that it’s all about a group of friends navigating the challenges of adolescence in the 1970s and that it’s been rebooted (and updated to the 90s) on a popular streaming service.
Und das ist kein Einzelfall. Von den guten (wer kennt „Cobra Kai“?) bis hin zu den weniger beliebten (hat eigentlich jemand das „Knight Rider“-Remake gesehen??) – es gibt immer einen Bedarf an Neuauflagen, die die aktuelle Situation und die Herausforderungen widerspiegeln.
Dieser Gedanke lässt sich auch auf die Datenverwaltungs- und -schutzstrategie Ihres Unternehmens übertragen – um sicherzustellen, dass sie in einer sich ständig verändernden Welt neuer Technologien und Cyberbedrohungen stets aktuell und wirksam bleibt.
Nutzen Sie das neue Jahr und den neuen Blickwinkel, um zu prüfen, ob Ihnen eines der folgenden Anzeichen bekannt vorkommt. Falls ja, sind Sie möglicherweise in einer hervorragenden Ausgangsposition, um einen Plan zu entwickeln, mit dem Sie Ihren Umgang mit Daten im Zeitalter der modernen Cloud neu ausrichten können:
- Outdated & mismatched technologies: Just like the characters on the show were stuck in the 1970s, your data management and protection strategy may be relying on a “frakenstack” of mismatched and outdated technologies that sprawled organically but are now stuck in time and are no longer effective in today’s modern multi-cloud world. It’s important to regularly review and update your technology strategy to ensure that your approach to data growth and retention is not only purposeful and effective, but also provides you powerful protection and controls from the best tools available.
- Uncertainty around shared responsibility obligations with Cloud Providers and SaaS Applications: If you don’t have a solid understanding of what your obligations are to protect your data under the shared responsibility model, you could end up losing days, weeks, or even months of valuable insights in the event of a disaster situation. In the show, the characters often found themselves in sticky situations that could have been avoided with proper situational awareness & planning. The same is true for your organization’s off-prem data.
- Insufficient access controls: Whether resulting from innocent human error, or malicious bad actors, your data management and protection measures can often be wide open to catastrophic incident if users have too large a sandbox to play in. Our crew of misfits in “That 70’s Show” often found themselves in trouble due to a lack of boundaries and rules. The same is true for your organization’s data. With proper access controls in place, your data is more protected, your risk profiler is smaller, and you can rest easy knowing that it’s that much harder to have a major incident due to unauthorized individual actions.
- Lack of employee & org leader education: Just like the characters on the show needed guidance and direction, your employees and cross-functional partners need to be educated on best practices for data protection. Without proper education, your organization is at risk of data breaches and other cybersecurity threats. Do all of your cross-functional partners (HR, Sales, Operations, Dev Ops, etc.) understand the implications and limitations of native SaaS applications and cloud services? Do they have a trusted partner in the IT function to ensure that their workloads are secure and backed up to cover any gaps in the service provider’s shared responsibility model while simultaneously providing upline leadership a single view of all of their distributed corporate data across all platforms and form-factors?
Sollte eines dieser Anzeichen auf Ihr Unternehmen zutreffen, ist es an der Zeit, darüber nachzudenken, Ihre Datenschutzstrategie zu überarbeiten.
Genauso wie die Serie „That 70’s Show“ die Zeit überdauert hat, kann eine solide Datenschutzstrategie Ihrem Unternehmen helfen, auf dem neuesten Stand zu bleiben und seine sensiblen Daten zu schützen. Bleiben Sie nicht in der Vergangenheit stecken – ergreifen Sie Maßnahmen, um sicherzustellen, dass Ihre Daten sicher und geschützt sind.
