What a consistent enterprise data protection strategy looks like

Problems with the consistency of data exist across all businesses and industries. Aside from causing doubts about accuracy, data inconsistency can result in everything from minor inconveniences to catastrophic complications.

With enterprises creating, processing, and storing more data than ever, it’s imperative they preserve its integrity. Understanding what data integrity is and how it works to protect your business, customers, and employees is the first step in keeping it secure.

Enterprise Data Protection Starts with Data Integrity

All data should be accurate, complete, and consistent. Data integrity also refers to data’s safety with respect to regulatory compliance. When your organization’s data is secure the information contained in a database is complete, accurate, and

reliable no matter how long you store it or how often people access it. Of course, data integrity is also about keeping data safe from outside malicious forces.

Dell EMC data protection provides innovative solutions that let your business thrive in the digital era.

Types of Data Integrity

There are two types of data integrity:

1. Logical integritykeeps your data unchanged, or consistent, as it’s used in different ways. It protects data from hackers and human error, too, but in a different way than physical integrity does.
   
   
2. Physical integrityis the protection of data’s accuracy and wholeness. For example, when a natural disaster strikes, hackers disrupt functions, or the power goes out, physical integrity is compromised. Storage erosion and a multitude of other issues can make it impossible for processing managers, system and application programmers, and internal auditors to access accurate data.

The Key to Consistency in Data Protection

Today, data may be contained on-premise and/or stored across multiple clouds. Creating a consistent data protection strategy like that offered by Dell EMC data protection is crucial to keeping that data safe. It’s a big challenge. Even with over 60% of enterprises adopting digital transformation, results have been mixed.

• The bigger Big Data gets, common security failings related to access management, IoT security, and network monitoring continue to stymie data protection efforts.
  
  
• With data so spread out over cloud platforms, mobile networks, and IoT devices, the bad guys have far more surfaces to attack. Even the most experienced IT teams are feeling hindered.
  
  
• The broader adoption of BYOD has resulted in security issues like data leakage, shadow IT, and unauthorized data
  access.

What can be done? A consistent, full-featured enterprises data protection strategy should include these two important elements:

• Automated monitoring tools and AI-driven solutions that offer insight across data, cloud networks, and endpoints into must-protect assets.
  
  
• Proactive mitigation in the form of unified policies on virtual and physical systems. Examples include intrusion detection (security information and event monitoring), traffic monitoring (log management), provisioning, (identity management), and authentication and credentialing, or access management.

Dell EMC Data Protection Might be Just What You Need

Leaving your organization’s valuable data vulnerable to attack is a risk never worth taking. To adequately protect data, consistent policies and procedures must be put in place to keep it safe from internal and external threats. Dell EMC data protection can be just the solution your business needs.

Partnering with an experienced IT service provider to develop strategic IT solutions not only keeps your data protected and consistent, but it also sharpens your competitive edge, helps you reach business objectives, and meet customer expectations. Don't you deserve better?