1.Data Protection

Data protection is the process of safeguarding valuable information from compromise or loss. The principle of data protection is to deploy technologies and methodologies to protect and make data available within acceptable use policies as part of an overall data governance model.

2.Data Security

Data security is the defense of information throughout its lifetime against internal, external, malicious, and accidental threats.

3.The increased demand from data protection and privacy regulations, coupled with the complexity of cloud architectures, create challenges such as:

• Visibility – difficulty in keeping an accurate inventory of all applications and data
• Access – third-party hosted applications have less controls than on premise, making it more difficult to have full visibility of user activity, and how data is being used
• Control – cloud vendors offer “shared responsibility” which means while users gain control over some security aspects, others remain within the scope of the vendor and users are unable to ensure security
• Inconsistencies – differing cloud platforms offer different capabilities, which can lead to inconsistencies in cloud protection and security