Slashed budgets? Think strategic, not tactical

In the current economic climate of uncertainty and tight IT budgets, often the mistake is to assume a more tactical, rather than strategic, approach to securing the ever-increasing volume of data travelling through an organization, said an information security expert.

"We see a lot of tactical activity, and that's probably human nature to plug the obvious holes," said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst with Milford, Mass.-based research firm Enterprise Strategy Group.

Focus on encrypting disks, tapes and laptops, and preventing network data leakage are the obvious things to do, but Oltsik thinks the real struggle is that businesses are creating increasingly more data and attempting to use it in intelligent ways both internally and externally.

Organizations must think strategically by first taking "an assessment approach" by surveying their overall data, said Oltsik, for they may uncover users who have been erroneously granted access to sensitive data, or who have the ability to save sensitive data to portable media.

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Source: networkworld.com
By: Kathleen Lau