Data security software protects data from breaches, unauthorized access and other threats by leveraging the latest protection protocol, data backup mechanisms and more. The most important features are data encryption monitoring in real-time backup functions that are automated, and access controls. These tools protect sensitive information from cyber-attacks and allow businesses to detect suspicious activity quickly.
Data protection tools must be able of identifying various threats such as ransomware, malware and other that use cryptographic algorithms to protect data and then remove it from systems. They should also provide an extensive set or analytics that can be used to identify the way in which data is exposed or hacked.
The top products available in this field also offer additional protection tools to deal with specific data risks and threats like database firewalls that prevent SQL injection and other attacks, identity and access management that monitors users with privileges to determine excessive or inappropriate privileges and dynamic data masking that obfuscates sensitive information so it is inaccessible for criminals if it were extracted from the database, and data loss prevention (DLP) that analyzes data that is in motion, at rest on servers or cloud storage or on devices that are endpoints.
You should consider the type of data your organisation uses and how much storage you use in order to determine how much capacity is required. Review your compliance requirements to ensure that the solution will meet your data storage and handling requirements. Finalize, evaluate the quality and speed of the support services provided by the vendor.
