Protecting your data at every state is important, and that includes information going in and out of a business.

Data in transit is when clients’ most valuable data is also most vulnerable. Data protection has become even more crucial with pandemic-required IoTSSA’s director of channel, Robin Miller, and director of content, Brian Sherman; Privafy’s executive vice president and CTO, Kumar Vishwanathan.

In a Q&A with Channel Partners, DesRosiers gives a sneak peek of what he will share with attendees.

Channel Partners: How has the COVID-19 pandemic made it more difficult for organizations to safeguard data?

Chris DesRosiers: The pandemic has forced hundreds of thousands of enterprises to rapidly move their employees to encrypted traffic, identity and access management systems, endpoint protection, updated home-based routers, operating systems and other controls. Unfortunately, this dramatic shift has yielded a bad result. Research group Canalys reports that 20 billion records were lost in 183 mega breaches in just the first nine months of 2020, the worst year on record.

CD: The bad actors are now using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. They are very organized and are doing a very good job of exacting trillions of dollars per year from our global economy. There are numerous annual cybersecurity industry reports such as the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report (CP: Can you give some examples of best practices for safeguarding data?

CP: Can safeguarding data give your organization a competitive advantage? If so, how?

SolarWinds attack that affected all parts of our national government, major international companies and potentially their suppliers. By implementing a robust security posture, enterprises can imbue confidence in their prospective business clients and partners versus their competitors who don’t make those security investments.

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