Protecting data against modern threats

Comprehensive data security is multi-faceted, addresses the entire flow of data, and must consider various factors requiring simple and unified management, according to Websense's Adam Bradley.

I don't really have to tell you that data needs protecting. You should already know about the need for heightened security measures to prevent the loss of confidential information and regulated data.

Yet the proliferation of data compromises reported across the world, such as the misplaced USB key containing thousands of patient's medical data from the Canadian Durham Health Authority and the recent theft of confidential information from Kent Police in the UK, reinforce this need and speak for themselves. Incidents of data loss, be it by accidental employee oversight or via a targeted web or email attack, are not merely hype. And they are on the rise.

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