Universal Data Protection Policy
Many organizations address a compliance initiative with a “consultant-and-checklist” approach. A vendor’s consultants set up shop onsite and the team runs through checklists to make sure that all controls are in place and all sensitive data is properly protected.
The consultant-and-checklist approach analyzes what an organization already has in place, and aims to patch up any problems and gaps that it finds. This often takes weeks or months. The problem then becomes the next compliance event, when the process starts all over.
With this approach is that overlapping, disconnected technologies and a patchwork of policies make it very difficult to apply and enforce policies globally. Gaps can appear even with slight changes to mandates or infrastructure, resulting in inefficiencies and loss of control and visibility.
A Forward-Looking Compliance Perspective
There is a different way to apply data protection policies. The first step is to look at the core information security principles serve as the foundation of many mandates.
- Ensuring confidentiality of data.
- Maintaining the integrity of data.
- Enforcing administrator separation of duties on systems with confidential data.
- Maintaining audit and log records of confidential data and activities.
Keeping these principles in mind, an infrastructure-centric approach—that is, one that builds an infrastructure that can support, manage and enforce these commonalities—is more effective for passing audits, complying with regulations, and meeting business goals. The system as a whole should address the current needs of the organization across a wide set of systems. This provides a way to enforce rules and policies consistently.
The advantages to this policy application approach include:
- Eliminating encryption creep
- Reducing encryption silos
- Lowering the chance of administrators accidentally open up security and compliance holes
- Eliminating a “patching up” approach to compliance
- Saving an enormous amount of time, money, and resources—in the short term as well as the long term.
Compliance Management - Single Security Solution to Ensure Full PCI Compliance
- Comprehensive, core-to-edge enterprise data protection solution
- Only solution that secures data across the connected enterprise- data at rest, data in transit, and data in use
- Single vendor to provide database encryption, hardware security modules, high speed encryption, disk/file encryption, and two-factor authentication tokens
Reduces the Cost and Complexity of Compliance
- Integrated security platform with centralized policy management and reporting
- All critical PCI encryption and key management requirements are centrally implemented
- Designed for fast and easy integration into existing IT infrastructure