Why Enterprise Integration Needs to be a Part of Your Data Security Strategy

Data security is an exclusive concern for enterprises as most of their mission-critical information resides in the cloud and mobile environments. Enterprises are under pressure to respond 24x7x365 to malware attacks, accidental deletion, and security breaches.

Gartner believes that securing data exchange across IT silos, hybrid platforms will become even more challenging. To address these issues, an enterprise integration platform needs to be more proactive and intelligent.

A next-generation tool should offer the following functionalities for secure data exchange:

• Automated orchestration, sensitive data discovery, anomalous user activity monitoring on a single platform.· Coverage across cloud and on-premise environment.· Support for complex data formats, user access, data correlation, analytics, policy management, etc.

In this blog, we will discuss how these capabilities prevent data breaches and improve compliance with acts and regulations like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), etc.: Managing the Data Growth

Data in an enterprise quadruple in just a few months and brings a barrage of challenges. It is generated in structured, semi-structured, and unstructured formats and arrives from multiple sources and databases. It is not wise enough to rely on segmented and disconnected approached for protecting data. An Enterprise IT integration solution addresses this need by providing a complete view of organizational data.

Users can monitor sensitive data and prevent potential misuse of data. Continuous and contextual threat protection systems diagnose threats as and when they arise.

Enterprise integration can enable business users to define protection policies to track compliance in a changing environment. Many data stores can be monitored with less time and resources involved.

Identifying and Protecting Business-Critical Data

An enterprise solution can help business users in consistently identifying and classifying business-critical data. It also enables users to apply policies for handling this data. Users can refer out-of-the-box search rules to perform logical checks against data and apply data handling rules for sensitive data elements. Here are some relevant capabilities:· Protection workflows for data masking or data encryption.· Automatic alerts for anomalies· Activity logs for user monitoring· Triggers for handling exceptions Advanced Integration solutions pack common risk frameworks that classify sensitive data, evaluate risk/ breach cost and generate a risk score. This framework enables users to assign classification levels, and build sophisticated matching rules within a policy. A next-generation integration tool offers capabilities to mask sensitive data . Robust data masking triggers enable users to set up bi-directional protection rules. These tools support all data formats and architectural concepts. With the help of these tools, users can integrate with third-party data security tools for further strengthening their data security framework.

A monitoring interface for identifying vulnerabilities not only reduces risk but also facilitates governance of IT security policy. It allows data owners and application owners to collaborate, implement security policies, and keep them consistent at all times. Teams can classify, discover, and report area where sensitive data is expanding. Unified monitoring interface helps teams in creating a defensible legal position for enterprises in case of a data breach. Related Searches: Technical Criteria for Evaluating an Integration Vendor

Companies looking for enterprise integration to strengthening their data security can leverage Adeptia Connect. It packs advanced features like tokenization, encryption, etc. for ensuring right data security strategy across the enterprise.

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