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How can you protect sensitive information stored in your database?
Five Ways to Protect Sensitive Data and Keep Your Database…
- Use certified encryption solutions to protect cardholder data.
- Encrypt cardholder data that is sent across open, public networks.
- Store encryption keys from your encrypted data on a certified encryption key management appliance.
How you can protect sensitive data that are being collected?
5 Key Principles of Securing Sensitive Data
- Take stock. Know what personal information you have in your files and on your computers.
- Scale down. Keep only what you need for your business.
- Lock it. Protect the information that you keep.
- Pitch it. Properly dispose of what you no longer need.
- Plan ahead.
How do you store sensitive data online?
Here are five data privacy protection tips to help you tackle the issue of cloud privacy:
- Avoid storing sensitive information in the cloud.
- Read the user agreement to find out how your cloud service storage works.
- Be serious about passwords.
- Encrypt.
- Use an encrypted cloud service.
Where should sensitive data be stored online?
As long as you take advantage of those features, a cloud service like Dropbox or SpiderOak is probably good enough to protect most documents. But remember: When it comes to the cloud, you’re always trusting your data to someone else.
How do you store private data?
7 tips for storing confidential data
- Enable full disk encryption on all devices.
- Restrict confidential data to the office.
- Don’t transfer unencrypted data over the Internet.
- Delete sensitive data you no longer need.
- Encrypt backups.
- Store more than one copy.
- Secure archive and cryptocontainer passwords.
How do you harden a database?
5 Principles of Database Hardening for Security
- Secure the Physical Space. Designing a secure database environment begins with the physical space.
- Isolate to Insulate Data.
- Use Principle of Least Privilege.
- Routinely Update and Patch.
- Harden the Whole Environment.