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Data security is a leading concern for CEOs across all industries—and for good reason. Each day, businesses face a wide range of potentially game-ending cyber threats. Malware, phishing, DDoS attacks, and rogue employees are just a few of the dangers lurking in the waters of digital transformation.

Why exactly is data security such a concern?

It’s simple: Data breaches can be exorbitantly expensive. In fact, a recent study by IBM revealed that the average cost to US companies is $8.19 million. Healthcare breaches tend to be the most expensive to resolve, with the average cost hovering around $6.4 million.

What’s more, the same IBM study showed that loss of customer trust accounts for 36% of the damages that companies face. This goes to show that data breaches are not only extremely disruptive and costly to businesses in the short term, their effects will be felt for years down the road—and perhaps even indefinitely.

In this post, we’ll be answering the question: What is the biggest threat to data security? Further, we will give you some tips on how to mitigate it.

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Big data is one of the top trending technologies today. I think it’s safe to assume that where there’s big data, there’s valuable information. And where there’s valuable information, there are security threats.

Obviously, we need to secure our data, and that’s what I’ll be talking about today. I’ll tell you what big data security is and talk about the challenges you’ll face with it.

The major topics I cover in this post are:

1. What is big data security?
2. Challenges of big data security
3. Technologies used for big data security

By the end of this post, you should have an understanding of what big data security is, why big data security is important, where you would face challenges while setting up security for big data systems, and the approaches you can utilize to provide big data security.

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Data security is important nowadays. We see data breaches all over the news, but companies still don’t protect their users’ data accordingly. So how do you handle PII data in a database?

This post will explain important practices about storing personally identifiable information (also called PII data) safely in a database. We’ll explore topics including data encryption, data permissions, and the usefulness of a database management system.

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