Why Data Integrity is the Key to Protecting Corporate Data

In this age of enterprise mobility and competiveness, there is a strong demand to have data and information available anywhere at any time. As a result, the majority of companies have embraced the trend of integrating tools such as Cloud and mobile services, chatbots and IoT devices to meet this demand. However, these applications bring a host of security threats for disclosing or leaking private company information like we have seen weekly over the last several years.

It’s clear data is an asset to businesses and holds a lot of weight to how successful a business can be. That is why it is vital for companies to take a look at how they are protecting data across their entire network.

Traditionally, security professionals within an organization identify the most sensitive information and pick and choose what information should be protected and selectively give access privileges to certain individuals. However, this approach to security is incredibly dated and does not hold up to the new cloud and mobile services companies and users alike are using to access and store data. As such, with the massive amount and constantly changing data that is flowing through a company’s network from various users and applications, it makes it difficult to manage the security of all this data.

With the heavy reliance on an open and integrated cloud environment to access their data, it’s critical for us as security professionals and technologists to look at what security tools are put in place currently and ask ourselves if we are doing it right and providing enough trust and security to enable organizations to allow their customers to use that data correctly. It’s time to take an approach that assumes all data is at risk from internal and external threats and focus on making data security a priority by combining the approach to weave the access to data with security from the start. If we don’t, we are going to lose our data.

What Does This Mean?

To make data security a priority, the core focus must be on protecting the data itself at the foundation level. Regardless of the user, it is important not to assume that every data request that comes in is from a trusted source. As such, at BOHH Labs we use a process that separates out every request from the requestor, and then use a combination of unique keyless end-to-end encryption, Artificial Intelligence technology, Natural Language Processing, and In-Memory Distributed Blockchain Ledger technology, to ensure the request gets checked at all points of vulnerability: the request, processing and backend data stores. This means every data request must be validated at each of these three points before moving forward, and never has direct access to the backend system so anyone coming on to the system is not able to hack their way through. This will allow companies to protect data no matter where it is being stored, accessed or transacted such as on on-premise databases, cloud platforms, IoT devices, mobile services and more.

Data is increasingly a critical part of businesses and consumers’ lives; thus, it’s essential to protect it without hindering the ability to actually use it. As such, at BOHH we believe it is time to revaluate how companies are securing the interaction with their data and make data access and security of it a priority to ensure companies can securely deploy innovative enterprise applications and cloud services without opening them up to massive, widespread, and malicious security threats.