Resilient Security: Building a Posture for Organizational Recovery

Data protection is a key practice in helping IT teams build resilience. Organizations have come to rely on data as the lifeblood of business, so that data must be protected to ensure that operations remain viable. “If your data isn’t discoverable, if it’s not governed correctly, if it’s not resilient, then you can’t use it to power innovation, drive operations and enhance your customers’ experience,” said Aaron McCray, field CISO at CDW. People often conflate the concepts of data security and data protection, but data protection involves more than data security measures such as implementing firewalls and backups, McCray said. It’s a programmatic approach that includes the visibility, access, resiliency, privacy and governance of an organization’s data. When organizations establish an effective level of data protection, they improve their resilience.