Enterprise Data Security

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What Does Enterprise Data Security Mean?

Enterprise data security is the process of delivering, monitoring and managing security across all data objects and repositories within an organization. It is a broad term that includes a number of tools, techniques, policies and framework to ensure that data is secure, regardless of where it is stored or consumed within the organization.

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Enterprise data security is also known as enterprise data protection.

Techopedia Explains Enterprise Data Security

Enterprise data security primarily implements and manages data security standards and practices on an organization’s data. Depending on the criticality and utilization of data, enterprise data security standards and procedures can vary. For example, highly confidential data can be secured using multi-factor authentication, encryption and limited access.

Enterprise data security generally works to protect an organization against data loss and ensure security on all devices that utilize data. It is delivered using information security technologies such as firewalls and antivirus, along with data security standards and policies for managing and governing the entire process.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.