Data security software protects information from unauthorized access and breaches by leveraging advanced security protocols, data backup mechanisms, and much more. Data encryption, real-time tracking, automated backup capabilities, and access control are a few of the main features. These tools safeguard sensitive data from cyber-attacks and allow companies to detect suspicious activities quickly.
Data protection tools must be able to identify a variety threats including ransomware, malware and other encryption algorithms that encrypt data and then smuggle it out of systems. They should also be able to provide an extensive set of analytics that can be used to identify how data is being accessed or hacked.
The best products in this category also include additional security tools that target specific data risks and threats such as firewalls for databases that block SQL injection and other attacks, identity and access management that monitors privileges of users to determine excessive or inappropriate privileges, dynamic data masking that obfuscates sensitive information so it would be useless to malicious actors in the event that it was extracted as well as data loss prevention (DLP) which examines the data in motion, whether at rest on servers as well as cloud storage or on endpoint devices.
You must consider the kind of data your business uses and the much storage you utilize in order to determine how much capacity is needed. Examine your compliance requirements to ensure that the solution will support your requirements for handling and storage of data. Finalize, evaluate the quality and the speed of the vendor’s support services.