Enabling data protection
It is important to address all aspects of the Confidentiality Integrity Availability (CIA) triad. We need to understand the importance of data and label or classify accordingly. We must ensure that data is protected from unauthorized access and that integrity is maintained. Data must also be made available so that business functionality can be maintained.
Data classification
The appropriate data owner needs to be consulted within the enterprise to establish the classification of data to ensure that appropriate controls are implemented.
Due to the amount of data that is typically held by large enterprises, automation is a common approach. For example, keyword or string searches could be utilized to discover documents containing a driver's license number, social security number, debit card numbers, and so on. We have data classification blocking where necessary to prevent data leakage. In Figure 3.6, we can see categories that could be used to label...