For organizations with heavy data security or compliance requirements, regular risk assessments are a must, and even more so if you keep any sensitive data in the cloud. You must know what assets you have, their relative vulnerability, their relative value (not only to your organization, but to attackers and competitors), and the probability of their loss. Only then can you develop a security strategy that balances the need for protection against budget and manpower restrictions. Encryption in the cloud can help you perform risk assessments in several ways.
1. Inventorying
A complete inventory of all your sensitive and/or protected assets is vital to your risk assessment. Encryption in the cloud can help accomplish that. A strong cloud encryption solution will provide you not only with granular control of encryption on individual data types, but also with clear visibility into the encryption that you’ve applied. What that means is that you’ll have visibility into your organization’s protected assets. With that visibility, you can more easily and thoroughly inventory data assets as part of your risk assessment process...Read More
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