What is data security?

Ransomware. Rogue administrators. Hackers. Cyberthreats come in all shapes and sizes. That’s why building the best data security defense is crucial for every organization. With the right processes, solutions, and strategy, you’ll be able to keep your data secure across your hybrid or multicloud environment. 

So what is data security?

True data centric security is built on two foundational blocks: threat detection and threat remediation. They work together to secure your data through every stage of an attack, from the initial hand-raise alerting you that something looks amiss to the post-event forensic analysis of your response. 

An alarm raised after criminals have already run away with your valuables isn’t much help. That’s why real-time threat detection and threat remediation are so critically important. Data security happens in real time, so you can catch and thwart threats as quickly as possible. 

Building block 1: Threat detection
Threat detection focuses on monitoring and identifying threats as soon as possible—ideally before they ever touch your data. Examples include: 

• Anomaly monitoring (user behavior and file systems) 
• Malware detection 
• Storage performance monitoring 

Building block 2: Threat remediation
Threat remediation involves responding appropriately to the threat and recovering from the attack, as quickly and cleanly as possible. Examples include:

• Recovery point creation 
• Data and application recovery 
• Forensic analysis 

Data security is vitally important for keeping your data safe, but it’s not the whole story. To come out ahead of cybercriminals, organizations are increasingly looking at a wider picture: cyber resilience. 

Cyber resilience combines data protection with data security, keeping your business running whether the threat comes from a perimeter breach or from the inside. 

In protecting your business, the best defense is a good offense. Cyber resilience helps you put the right data centric security and protection in place before an attack happens, so you’re prepared and able to survive anything that cybercriminals throw your way.

Educational institutions are notoriously difficult to protect against cyberattacks. Networks need to be easily accessible to students, employees, and faculty all using their own devices, creating a perfect storm for hackers. After a 2016 ransomware attack, Shibaura Institute of Technology invested in improving their cybersecurity measures.

With NetApp technology, Shibaura Institute of Technology has implemented multi-layered security that protects its 10,000 students and faculty members from ransomware attacks, as well as quickly detect and recover from cyber threat, with 60% data reduction with deduplication and compression.

NetApp is certified with the strictest security standards — including being the first and only enterprise storage vendor on the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified Components List — making it the most trusted enterprise storage validated for top-secret data.

NetApp is also validated by:

• DoD Approved Product List
• Common Criteria Certification 
• NIST Certification 

NetApp’s built-in — not bolted-on — approach to data security is why it’s trusted to manage and store some of the world’s most sensitive data, including the 1.4 million endpoints across the U.S. Army’s global infrastructure.