FOUR DATA PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2022
Ivan Pittaluga , CTO at Arcserve , reveals four data protection and management trends to keep an eye on in the year ahead .
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1 . The attack surface will continue to expand as ways of working evolve
Your attack surface includes all the possible ways an attacker can get into your company ’ s devices and networks and lock up or exfiltrate your data . So , it ’ s essential to keep your attack surface to a minimum . The problem is that your attack surface is continually growing as more people work remotely on multiple devices and create more entry points for cybercriminals to carry out cyberattacks .
Worse still , the attack surface is constantly changing . It isn ’ t a single surface but many disparate fragments . Furthermore , control of endpoints is becoming increasingly complex as employees leave organisations and retrieval of equipment becomes harder .
The bottom line is that breaches will inevitably happen . And in the coming year , companies will have to do a better job of recognising breaches so they can extricate themselves as quickly as possible .
Security and recovery strategies must be more thorough and practiced . As the attack surface expands , those strategies must cover not only your on-premises data but data in the cloud , at the Edge and everywhere in between .
2 . Data sovereignty will create even greater complexity for data management
As companies have grown globally and become more interconnected , the rules around data privacy have become far more complicated .
For example , a company based in Germany may use a US-based company like Amazon or Google to store and send data . The question is , where does that German company ’ s data legally reside and by what rules is it governed ?
The answers to these questions are complex and unclear . Global experts of IT , legal and HR are discussing passionately how to interpret our constantly evolving reality of data processing .
That ’ s why 86 % of IT decision-makers say their organisations have been impacted by changing compliance requirements for data privacy , according to a global survey conducted by Dimensional Research .
Ivan Pittaluga , CTO , Arcserve
Companies no longer have a single data lake at their corporate headquarters that IT can focus on protecting . These days , much of their data resides in the cloud , which means they have a globally distributed data infrastructure .
Your attack surface is continually growing as more people work remotely on multiple devices .
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