Now more than ever, protecting data is the most important consideration when developing a successful security strategy. The need for immediate data availability continues to increase while the ability to secure networks and devices decreases. Company assets are moving off premise. Employees now own their laptops and mobile devices. Remote desktops and cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are becoming the norm. At the same time the sophistication of inside or outside attackers makes protecting the device or network nearly impossible.
Historically, data protection solutions have followed the threat: moving from the perimeter, to the network, to the server, to the application, to the user, and now to the data itself. Current efforts to secure “structured data” held in repositories such as internal file servers, databases and content management systems are very mature and fully deployed. Employing a combination of access management, network monitoring, and database security solutions helps secure the “unstructured data” in files. However, these methods do not protect the larger percentage of intellectual property - unstructured file based data. Sensitive information resides, unprotected, on endpoint devices or in repositories like SharePoint, file servers, and cloud based collaboration or storage solutions.
The focus on structured data was necessary because of the ever-changing threat, but tools to secure “unstructured data” have lagged. As structured data becomes more secure the attackers are moving to “unstructured data” as their target. Malware and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) are aiming at the data on the desktop or held in unstructured repositories. New methods to protect this “unstructured data” are required. To effectively mitigate the risk of losing intellectual property and sensitive data, companies must augment their security architecture with a new approach to Observe, Analyze, & Act on threats to their unstructured data.
Mark Bennett, VP of Sales at FileTrek
Mark Bennett is the VP of Sales at FileTrek: focused on business development, partnerships, client acquisition and customer satisfaction. Mark has over 20 years of experience helping commercial and public sector clients solve complex IT and IT-Security challenges. Aligning new and creative solutions to real-world customer problems is Mark’s specialty. Mark has held management positions with foremost industry companies including Accuvant and Cisco. Most recently Mark was VP of Sales for IDMWORKS, a top ten Identity and Access Management consultancy. From 2008 until 2011, as a member of the executive team, Mark helped Accuvant grow sales from $145 million to over $350 million. Mark graduated in 1981 from University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration.
