New Verizon consulting service helps businesses find distributed data and prioritize their security
November 9, 2009
Verizon Enterprise Solutions today continues its barrage of managed security services, announcing a new consulting service that will help businesses identify their data, in order to better protect it. The new service represents a fundamental change in enterprise security, by focusing on data, and not just networks and applications. (See VZB Adds to Security Services.)
The Verizon Business Data Discovery, Identification and Security Classification (DDISC) addresses a specific problem Verizon identified earlier this year in its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, says Omar Khawaja, product manager with Verizon Business.
That report showed that many businesses don’t know where all their data resides or even that some data exists, and that this unknown data is much more vulnerable to being breached. About two-thirds of all data involved in breaches was not known to exist on the systems hosting that data, according to the report.