Exploring Security Strategies for Enterprise Data Protection in Organisations

Abstract

Due to the rise of data breaches, organisations constantly need to develop new strategies and security architectures to protect their data assets. This must be done to prevent further breaches, financial losses and a tarnished reputation. In recent years, organisations have focused on perimeter security to protect their data assets; however, since about 50 per cent of most security breaches are perpetrated internally, perimeter defences are no longer adequate for securing organisational data. This further emphasises the importance of developing strategies that can provide adequate data protection measures for organisations. This paper presents an overview of security strategies that can be utilised by organisations to safeguard and protect their data assets. The paper explores various aspects of data protection measures such as classification of sensitive data, defining a security policy around identified data, determining a mode of data privacy implementation, and cyber security awareness. A security strategy model for the protection of organisational data assets in organisations is proposed from the literature review. The paper provides valuable information on how organisational data can be handled safely and protected against both internal and external threats. The paper aims to assist organisations to protect their data as part of the contributions toward community engagement.