WHY IS DATA SECURITY IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY

 The data security is crucial to the success of a business. How to protect company data ? What techniques to apply to take care of the computer security of a business? Many SMEs do not know how to answer these questions, and the use of computer systems is associated with cybersecurity problems.

However, data security is an essential aspect that you must manage intelligently. With a data security policy, your company could know at all times how to act, take preventive measures against risks to privacy or data integrity, and be able to work effectively.

What is data security

The data security is all that guarantees the availability, accessibility, integrity and privacy of data.

All companies work with data and are constantly collecting data. Every time you create new files on your computers, you are generating data. Every time a new transaction occurs and it is recorded in your POS and business management program, these data are recorded.

All data is important in the short term for a number of reasons:

You have an obligation to protect them by any data protection regulations.

At an operational level, they provide you with information about the progress of your business.

They are essential to meet your tax obligations.

Ultimately, a company cannot go anywhere if it does not take care of data security.

The keys to information security

Information security can be affected by cybercriminals, computer viruses or accidents of various kinds.

Many times companies are not aware of the risks they run at an economic and business level because they ignore the value of their database.

Your database can be damaged for multiple reasons. Let's see point by point what are the keys to information security.

1. Data integrity

Your data must be kept complete. If they are lost due to the poor condition of your computer equipment, they could become unrecoverable.

If there is no data integrity, there is a lack of information. That can have economic and legal consequences.

The best way to protect data integrity is through backups.

2. Availability and accessibility

The data must not only be complete, it must also be available. Even if you don't lose your database, it may be inaccessible to employees. For example, if your computers have been the victims of a ransomware attack.

The lack of data availability delays the processes in your business. You cannot work when there is a lack of access to information.

This lack of access is not always due to security-related reasons. It may simply be that your servers are performing poorly, so the work of all your employees who need to access them suffers. You need server maintenance so that your data is always accessible.

3. Privacy

The data may exist and be accessible, but is it private, or is it in the hands of something else? Every day thousands of companies are victims of multiple cyberattacks that endanger the privacy of information.

Companies are obliged to comply with data protection regulations. This means that if you store and process third-party data, you must apply the necessary measures so that this data does not end up in the wrong hands.

Why it is important to gross care of data security in the company

Many companies do not pay enough attention to taking care of the security of their data. That is why they are victims of computer security problems that can even put their very existence at risk, due to the economic consequences that a complaint and a fine from the Spanish Data Protection Agency could have.

To take care of information security in your company, you need to do a data protection audit. This would help you ensure that you are complying with the appropriate measures to protect the data of your contacts, customers, suppliers or employees.

However, it is also necessary to take technical measures to take care of information security. Computer maintenance can help you have the data always available and have backup copies in the cloud, which allow you to be operational again in a short time in the event of any eventuality.

At Gadae we can help your company prevent the risks of poor data care. If you have already had computer security problems, it is one more reason to take action now and monitor data protection more thoroughly in your company.

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