Secure online storage: How to protect your sensitive data?
Limiting the risk of cyber attacks, ensuring file backups, ensuring the traceability and confidentiality of professional communications... There are many reasons why organizations need to ensure their sensitive data are secured when stored online.
How can you be sure to choose an effective secure online storage and sensitive data protection system? Ercom, a vendor specializing in data and communication security, helps you implement the best system.
Protection and storage of sensitive data: A duty for organizations
Organizations operating in sensitive and/or highly competitive markets need to ensure their data are protected and stored correctly. And with good reason: whether this implies sensitive files or internal and/or external exchanges via chat applications, telephone conversations, project management, etc., all unsecured company data may disappear or even leak out for a variety of reasons.
Improper storage of sensitive data can jeopardize an organization by making it vulnerable:
- Complete loss of all data (damage to storage equipment, data theft, equipment breakdown, etc.)
- Risks of spying by competitors
- Human error by employees
- Malicious disclosure of information by users
- Cyber attacks aimed at recovering sensitive files to extort or weaken organizations
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How to secure an organization's sensitive data?
To prevent such risks, organizations should implement a high-performance data security system. First and foremost, this system requires best practices such as:
- Raising user awareness about the GDPR
- Securing corporate devices: computers, smartphones, tablets
- Good password management practices (non-disclosure of passwords between users, change every three months, etc.).
- Perfect prioritization of data access
- Strict confidentiality agreements between users, customers and service providers
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Ensuring data storage in the cloud
This system shall include a high-performance service for storing and protecting sensitive data. It is therefore imperative to secure both servers and local networks with appropriate protection software: antivirus, VPN, antispyware, antimalware... It is also vital to anticipate the disappearance of data by outsourcing their storage on secure online servers; this is the cloud principle proposed by Ercom.
In addition to providing access to secure storage, cloud services such as those offered by Ercom also enable the use of applications, software and communication channels (project management tools, chat, telephone communication, videoconferencing, etc.). These ensure information is protected through data encryption procedures.
The use of high-performance secure cloud services coupled with good in-house practices represent the key to ensuring secure storage and confidentiality of sensitive data.
