Protecting Data

Methods to Secure Data

• Geographic Restrictions: Limiting data access or storage to specific geographic regions to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Encryption: Converting data into an unreadable format that can only be decrypted by authorized users with the correct key, ensuring data confidentiality in storage and transit.
• Hashing: Transforming data into a fixed-length string of characters, typically used for integrity checks, not reversible like encryption.
• Masking: Obscuring parts of the data to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, often used in testing or non-production environments.
• Tokenization: Replacing sensitive data with unique identifiers (tokens) that cannot be reversed without access to a secure tokenization system.
• Obfuscation: Making data difficult to understand or interpret, often used in code or data transformations for added security.
• Segmentation: Dividing data into different segments or zones, often with separate security policies, to limit access and reduce the impact of breaches.
• Permission Restrictions: Enforcing strict access control policies to ensure that only authorized users can view, edit, or delete data.