Tips for Data Leakage and Breach Prevention | FileCloud

June 29, 2020

In today’s digitized global economy, data break or data leaks can result in leaked sensitive information, insights about the company’s growth patterns, differential competitiveness against their competitors and much more. With the increasing volume of data, it is necessitated, that businesses look for alternatives that not only help them in providing solutions to their storage […]

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In today’s digitized global economy, data break or data leaks can result in leaked sensitive information, insights about the company's growth patterns, differential competitiveness against their competitors and much more.

With the increasing volume of data, it is necessitated, that businesses look for alternatives that not only help them in providing solutions to their storage problems but also help them in offering security against data breaches and ransomware attacks. In this article we will discuss about data breach and tips for preventing data breach.

According to a data breach research conducted by Verizon, "43% of breach victims are usually small, growing businesses". Also, the report highlighted, “Healthcare sector constituted 15% breaches, Financial industry constituted 10% breaches”. IBM informs that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 209 days which implies that businesses need to look at increasing the security infrastructure exponentially, since these breaches can lurk around for so long that by the time they have been identified, huge losses would have been incurred already by the businesses.

The mentioned tips for preventing data breach and other security measures provided by DLP tools can ensure a secure enterprise environment which stops any data leaks and data breaches from happening automatically or manually.

What is a Data Breach?

A data breach, also commonly known as data leakage is the release of sensitive and confidential data with the intent of causing huge losses to the business. Data breaches are not necessarily the result of hacker attack but could also be an insider job, therefore businesses should always take precautions to protect data from falling into the wrong hands.

Businesses receive and store huge terabytes of sensitive data such as client’s banking details, employee's social security number, or project details, etc and data leakage would mean a complete or partial loss of data based on the mode in which data breach occurs.

Implementing new technological security practices and processes ensures that data leakages to be reduced to bare minimum and at the same time preventing data loss using Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
Types of Information leaked during data leakage:

Different groups or types of information which can be leaked

Types Of Information Which Can be Leaked Online
Types Of Information Which Can be Leaked Online

Causes of Information Leakage:

Tips for Data Leakage Protection:

A data breach in the business's storage system occurs silently and lurks in the background without the knowledge. Data is stolen gradually over several days and when the breach is identified already complete loss of data has occurred.

Several experts are of the opinion that data leakages are not completely preventable and therefore safeguard practices such as detection, containment and remediation should be thoroughly followed.

Some of the best practices that can help businesses prevent data breaches are:

Best Practices to Prevent Data Breaches
Best Practices to Prevent Data Breaches

Learn How FileCloud’s DLP can help you in preventing data breaches?

FileCloud enterprise storage and sharing solution (EFSS) not only provides you with the space for storing your data but also provides a workspace where you can collaborate with your team. Whether your preferred hosting option is an on-premise storage, cloud storage or a hybrid storage setup, FileCloud provides you all the necessary tools to prevent data loss and data breaches.

To make your stored files secure, FileCloud employs security protocols like end-point backup, 2 factor authentication, anti-virus scanning and ransomware protection along with more techniques. While your files are protected on the servers, many data breaches happen due to external sharing, hacks, social hacking and malware.

When there are so many invisible threats to sensitive data, you need a smart tool to employ rules which classify confidential and business critical data, identify violations of policies defined internally, prevent the data leaks from happening across all bases.

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FileCloud’s approach to DLP relies on multiple layers of security, including:

By Team FileCloud