The Kings Defence: Safeguarding your data kingdom
By Abikaye
30 April 2024
In the digital world, protecting critical data assets is comparable to safeguarding the king in a game of chess. Just as the king is the most valuable piece on the board and is paramount for victory, data assets are the lifeblood of an organisation, demanding robust defence strategies to ensure their continuous protection and integrity.
This blog explores the parallels between chess strategies and security measures for safeguarding your critical assets, with an introduction to Dell PowerStore that can be leveraged to achieve agile cyber resilience.
How do the chessboard and the data kingdom align?
Strategic Positioning: Like positioning pieces strategically around the king to defend against threats, organisations strategically deploy measures to safeguard their data and assets from malicious actors.
Risk Assessment: Assessing potential threats and vulnerabilities to an enterprise, is akin to anticipating opponent moves in chess. A skilled chess player carefully assesses their opponent's potential strategies and vulnerabilities to formulate their own plan, whilst conducting a risk assessment enables an organisation to identify and mitigate potential risks before they materialise.
Adaptability: Just as chess players anticipates and responds to their opponent's tactics in real-time, cybersecurity professionals must adapt defences to counter evolving cyber threats and challenges, continuously monitoring and analysing the ever-changing threat landscape.
Key measures you can implement to safeguard critical data:
Encryption: Encrypt data at rest and in transit to protect it from unauthorised access or interception.
Regular backup and recovery: Establish regular data backups and recovery procedures to minimise data loss and ensure business continuity in the event of an incident. Dell Apex Backup can help to simplify your day-to-day operations, regain agility, and ensure business continuity on SaaS applications, Endpoints and Hybrid workloads.
Access Control and Authentication: Implement robust access control mechanisms and multifactor authentication to ensure only authorised personnel have access to sensitive data.
Dell PowerStore: PowerStore offers the robust security features listed above. It provides agile and versatile storage solutions for block, file and virtual workloads along with various means of data protection, including remote backup when integrated with PowerProtect.
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