Data Security is a process of protecting files, databases, and accounts on a network by adopting a set of controls, applications, and techniques that identify the relative importance of different datasets, their sensitivity, regulatory compliance requirements and then applying appropriate protections to secure those resources.

Similar to other approaches like perimeter security, file security or user behavioral security, data security is not the be all, end all for a security posture. It’s one method of evaluating and reducing the risk that comes with storing your most valued asset, i.e. your data.

So why does Data Security make more sense?

Broadly speaking, your data is your key business asset, this is what you care most about.  Taking a data-centric approach to security should make more sense, especially when traditional perimeter or “user-centric” approaches are failing: they focus on questions like:

• Is this user permitted to access this data?
• Is this person authorized to be on this network?
• Is this person abusing system resources?

But once authorized to be on the network, users have historically had little controls to overcome, particularly if compromised.  Segmenting Data Stores or Application Server networks from user devices, having a log of all activity of users activity on data, using that information to ensure user access is least permissive, automating reaction to anomalous user behavior all align with a data-centric approach to security.

A data-centric security model is a practical way of approaching security around what is most important to the organisation, whilst at the same time addressing a significant number of risk and compliance concerns.

Asystec partner with VMware bringing NSX to the market. VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the software-defined Data Center. By bringing the operational model of a virtual machine to you Data Center network, you can transform the economics of network and security operations.

NSX lets you treat your physical network as a pool of transport capacity, with network and security services attached to VM’s with a policy driven approach.

Asystec has been Varonis’s sole partner in Ireland since 2011 and provides full pre-sales and post sales capabilities and experience around their Security Platform. Asystec has expanded its customer base across Europe and North America and is one of a limited number of global Varonis certified professional service partners.