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	May 11, 2006 Secure The Data, Not Just The Underlying Infrastructure by Paul Stamp with Ellen Daley, Erica Driver, Jonathan Penn, Christine E. Atwood	Average: 10  (2 ratings)

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Executive Summary

New business pressures mean that organizations need to share data across ever-widening organizational and geographical areas. However, at the same time, they are increasingly accountable for ensuring that data is properly protected, even when it resides on infrastructure over which they have little or no control. This has led organizations to look at ways to secure the data itself, rather than just the infrastructure that holds and transports it. What do they find? The technology to help them is still embryonic with only a few vendors offering solutions. Mainstream migration to a datacentric security model will take five years to evolve, but today, companies need to define a strategy for datacentric security starting with information classification and data encryption.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• New Business Demands Render Old Security Models Obsolete
• The Future Of Security Is Datacentric
• A Datacentric Security Model Is A Hard Task — But Help Is Appearing

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Prepare Process And Infrastructure To Accommodate The New Model

WHAT IT MEANS

• eCommerce Flourishes And Audits Flounder As Data-Sharing Issues Diminish
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