How do you store sensitive data?

How do you store sensitive data?

Any sensitive data stored on a portable or personable device should be password or passcode protected and securely encrypted. This includes data held on USBs, external hard drives, laptops, desktop computers, smart phones, tablets and external servers.

How do you ensure confidential data is stored in a secure place?

How to keep your company’s sensitive data secure

  1. Educate employees on best network security practices.
  2. Create a BYOD policy.
  3. Create a robust policy for handling sensitive data.
  4. Encrypt your data for protection.
  5. Focus on password security.
  6. Be aware to prevent data breach.
  7. Introduce identity and access management (IAM)

How do you manage sensitive information?

Below are some of the best ways to better protect the confidential information that your business handles.

  1. Control access.
  2. Use confidential waste bins and shredders.
  3. Lockable document storage cabinets.
  4. Secure delivery of confidential documents.
  5. Employee training.

How will you protect the sensitive data in the databases?

Five Ways to Protect Sensitive Data and Keep Your Database…

  • Use certified encryption solutions to protect cardholder data.
  • Encrypt cardholder data that is sent across open, public networks.
  • Store encryption keys from your encrypted data on a certified encryption key management appliance.

How to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data?

By integrating data loss prevention (DLP) with the data security and UEBA solutions, it’s even easier for enterprises to stop sensitive data from leaving the company. For example, if an employee attempts to email customers’ social security numbers to someone outside the company, the DLP solution can block the transaction for immediate protection.

How does access control for sensitive data in packages work?

This protection level does not encrypt, but instead it prevents properties that are marked sensitive from being saved with the package and therefore makes the sensitive data unavailable to other users. If a different user opens the package, the sensitive information is replaced with blanks and the user must provide the sensitive information.

What do you need to know about sensitive data?

These access controls will need to be carefully monitored to ensure that the security team know when they change, by whom, and why. In addition to monitoring access controls, you will need to monitor access to the sensitive data itself. You need a detailed summary of who is accessing what sensitive data, and when.

How to protect sensitive information in a package?

If a different user opens the package, the sensitive information is replaced with blanks and the user must provide the sensitive information. When used with the dtutil utility (dtutil.exe), this protection level corresponds to the value of 0. Uses a password to encrypt the whole package.