Specifying security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB

Data is the second-most important asset within your company after people. Data not only includes business and financial data, but also a large amount of personally identifiable information (PII) regarding employees and customers. If you are a healthcare company, you will also have personal health information (PHI). Exposure of this data, whether malicious or unintentional, will cause damage to your company, customers, and people.

Determining security requirements and protecting data workloads should focus on three key criteria:

• Data protection should be in place across all data workloads through the identification of sensitive data and classifying that data with labels to mask data from unauthorized users
• Prevent data loss by utilizing data loss prevention (DLP) tools that identify and protect sensitive data that may be accidentally or intentionally...