Data security software protects information from unauthorized access and breaches using advanced protection protocols, backup mechanisms, and more. Its key features include encryption of data and monitoring in real time of backups, automated backup features and access control. These tools protect sensitive data from cyber-attacks and help companies detect suspicious activity swiftly.
Data protection tools must be able to recognize numerous threats that include ransomware and malware that use cryptographic algorithms to encrypt and exfiltrate data from systems. They must also provide a robust set analytics that can be used to determine if data was exposed or exploited.
The top products in this category also offer additional protection tools to deal with specific threats and risks to data such as firewalls for databases that stop SQL injection and other attacks, identity and access management that monitors users with privileges to determine excessive or inappropriate privileges, dynamic data masking that obscures sensitive information so that it is inaccessible for criminals should it be extracted or destroyed, and data loss prevention (DLP) that inspects data in motion, at rest on servers or cloud storage or on devices that are endpoints.
Think about the type of data your organization handles and the amount of storage it has to use to determine the capacity you need. Also, review your regulations for compliance to make sure that the solution is able to meet all of your needs for handling and storage of data. In addition, consider the quality of support to see whether the vendor is able to answer all your questions in a speedy and promptly.