Securing the data life cycle

Data generated by connected assets has a life cycle. Device-cloud communication involves data acquisition, processing, retention, and deletion. In order to protect the privacy of data across its life cycle, policies need to enumerate the responsibilities of all parties covering the entire period of contract engagement.

Encryption of sensitive data protects data during acquisition, protection, and retention phases.

Data activity monitoring services provide logging and auditing traces associated with the data access, changes, and events, often at a data-element level of granularity. Thresholds and rules define the normal activity to flag alerts in the case of data anomalies. In multi-tenant environments, the visibility of these events should be limited only to associated tenants and users. While the cloud platform provider may provide proprietary data monitoring solutions, some well-known third-party solutions include IBM Guardium Data Activity Monitoring and Imperva...