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Who wouldn’t want their data to be secure? Data security plays an important role for individuals and for organizations ranging from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies. But when it comes to security in data centers and on networks, things get a little complicated. And that’s where a data security analyst comes in.

In this post, you’ll find out what a data security analyst does and why your organization might need one. You’ll learn about these topics:

• Who needs a data security analyst?
• What does a data security analyst do?
• How could you become a data security analyst?

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Data compliance is a critical component of any company’s data management efforts, but it suffers from an image problem. Compliance is often seen as dull and boring, a long list of rules to check off simply to satisfy a control group. But data compliance is so much more than this. Done right, data compliance will both reduce risk in your business and potentially differentiate you from your competitors.

In this post, we’ll briefly review the core components of data compliance. Then, we’ll explore in more detail three standards you must be aware of.

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Have you ever wondered how you could reduce security threats and risks against your data assets? Or even better, how you could eliminate threats to your organization’s data entirely? If so, this article about how to mitigate security threats to data assets is for you.

We’ll discuss some of the main challenges organizations have when they try to mitigate or eliminate data security threats. Then, we’ll move on to risk assessment as the first piece of the threat mitigation puzzle. We’ll discuss how to eliminate risks and threats and how to mitigate them using security controls. We’ll also answer the question of how effective security controls are. Lots to talk about—let’s get started!

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