In an era where the use of information is rapidly evolving, safeguarding your critical information is not just a choice anymore but an important requirement for maintaining business value. Additionally, the ever increases demand from regulatory and governmental bodies on data use and storage require a comprehensive information protection stance. This creates the question: How do we protect our critical information?
The answer to this question starts with: Why should information protection be important for your organisation?
Information protection is often incentivised by:
Securing public trust
“Transparently meet compliance requirements on protection and use of information”
e.g.
- Laws & Regulation
- Cyber-insurance requirements
- Client and partner expectations
Supporting the business strategy
“Enable innovation and a data fuelled business through understanding, orchestrating, and simplifying where information resides.”
e.g.
- Zero trust strategy
- Stay in control during novel development
- Stack rationalisation
Creating information resilience
“Identify crown jewels, adequately protect the crown jewels, and cover the complete information estate with information resilience controls”
e.g.
- Mitigate risk to information
- Mitigate risk from owning information
However, organisations find great difficulties in meeting the information protection objectives derived from the information protection incentives. The difficulties can be characterised by:
- Information is volatile, often inconsistent, and hard to assess
- Information capability needs are complex and suffer from ambiguity
- Information is everywhere
- Information is a broad, intangible, often siloed, and an opaque organisational subject
- The data security industry is overhyped, undefined, and reliant on point products
How PwC can help
Our approach is focused on enabling you to understand & protect your information, and align information protection with data management, this creates a holistic information protection posture. Enhandling and storage of different kinds of information
- Discovery and identification of sensitive information across the landscape and identification of risk exposure/potential noncompliance
- Implementation of DLP technology to prevent the misuse/exfiltration of data
Do you want to learn more about Information Protection?
Contact us
Partner Cybersecurity, Privacy & Resilience, PwC Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)63 086 15 22
Partner Cybersecurity, resilience & privacy, PwC Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)62 243 29 62
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