Need for Data Encryption!

Posted by secukart on February 6th, 2020

With the advent of Data Protection Law for securing the citizen’s data, empowering the citizen to have control of their data and its usage. Data Protection Authority and its rules and regulation will change the way data will be used going forward. At one hand Data Protection Authority will protect and empower the citizen’s right to privacy and on the other hand its going to regulate the business to ensure the data protection and handover the ultimate control of personal and sensitive data to its user.

It is going to open the sea of opportunity for home grown data centers and application developers to help the business to achieve and comply with the data protection policy. It also mandates the reporting of data breach to the central authority and non-compliance with the law will attract Financial penalty and Bad reputation to the organization which is processing the PII data of citizens.

Data Protection Act put big emphasis on the data protection of the sensitive and critical data. It means any organization which is going to process the data of citizens for delivering services need to protect the data wherever they are storing it by using Encryption as a Technology. Organizations will have to use the data encryption of Sensitive or critical data. Encryption can be used to protect the data residing in Data bases, Application Servers, Storages, VMs or File and Folders.

For ensuring the smooth implementation of Data De-identification or Data Encryption , one need to have the knowledge or expertise of the encryption standards , Encryption Algorithms , Encryption Key , Provisioning of Encryption Key , Management of number of Encryption Keys, Key Versioning , Key Rotation , managing the life cycle of Encryption keys and the integration of Key Management Solutions with their existing Applications. And most importantly Keys should be stored in Hardware Security module to protect the key from any sort of Data breach threat or cyber-attack.

We have solution to help the organization to implement the Data Encryption and Data Protection policy without investing heavily in building the inhouse capability to address the same. Data Protection Act is going to impact Many Enterprises, BFSI, PSUs, Govt Agencies in terms how they should protect the citizen data and it will demand huge attention from the CIO or CISO of the organizations. Non-Compliance with the Data Protection Act will lead to huge financial and reputational loss.

Data Encryption Solution is must for all the major Companies which will need to collect and process the PII data to deliver the services to consumer.