Data-Centric Strategy

The Data-Centric Strategy has been growing in popularity for several reasons, including numerous high-profile data breaches, revelations about government data collection programs, the dramatically increased frequency of ransomware attacks, and the increasing risk of intellectual property theft.

There are also increasing regulatory demands that aim to help protect consumer privacy and have significant noncompliance fines associated with them, such as GDPR, for example. In addition, because of the challenges we discussed with the Protect and Recover Strategy, the Endpoint Protection Strategy, the Application-Centric Strategy, the popularity of BYOD, IT environments, and the emergence of IoT, some organizations have decided to stop using strategies that solely rely on proxies to protect their data. Instead of relying on the security provided by firewalls, endpoints, and applications, their strategy is to protect the data, no matter where it is.

Whether...