Privileged Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Organizations

© Morey J. Haber 2020

M. J. HaberPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5914-6_9

9. Unstructured Data

Morey J. Haber¹ 

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Heathrow, FL, USA

 

Not so long ago, it was much easier to protect your data. Perimeter defenses were in place and meant something, and there were limited pathways to access your organization’s data. Data came in from IT-approved, enterprise-controlled devices and applications. It lived on your servers and in storage arrays. It was protected by walling off the outsiders and trusting your insiders. But IT environments have changed in a big way. Now, data is increasingly collected from applications, users, devices, cloud services, and connected hardware, with dwindling amounts of it under enterprise control. New ...