MAKING PROTECTION PARAMOUNT: "Threats are everywhere and hackers are more determined than ever to get at your data.".

• Author: Hohman, Robert
• Position: DATA BREACHES

Information is the most-valuable asset for any organization, which is why hackers see it as their new gold rush. Threats are everywhere and hackers are more determined than ever to get at your data. Managing information can be challenging enough between all of your working documents, record keeping, emails, financial data, music, photos, videos, and everything else; it piles up very quickly. If you are not careful, it can get out of control. Safeguarding the data against growing threats without the right solutions and policies in place can be an even bigger challenge. Here are five solutions for protecting data for your home or office:

Create a company-wide security mindset. Though it often is easier said than done, this is a vital component to maintaining good data security across the organization. Start at the top.

The people most invested in the success of the company need to have the right mindset first about keeping information safe before best practices can be implemented company-wide. Once the leadership is onboard with how important it is to protect their most important asset, it will be easier to implement good secure policies throughout the organization.

Enforce secure policies that encrypt and protect data automatically. Working with data day in and day out, it is easy for employees to put security on the back-burner. Do not expect staff to make security a high priority or assume they are protecting data when working with sensitive company information. By making encryption automatic, employees can adapt to security policies much more comfortably when there are no cumbersome tasks or long instructions.

Remotely manage your organization's secure data storage drives around the world. Remotely managing actions and data assets of the organization is an administrator's ultimate tool for ensuring data security and protecting information. Whether your secure USB drives are across the globe or the next room over, remote management can ensure that the drives are doing the job they are intended to do, and managing compromising situations if they arise. IT administrators can manage actions and company data...