Living on the data edge - Yadin Porter De Leon - Ep36

Tech Interviews

There has no doubt been a change in the way we look at protecting and securing our key data, with robust data protection, enhanced data security plans and increased governance to ensure compliance with ever-increasing regulatory requirements. However, much of this is concentrated in our datacentre and our central data sets, which although critical, is not all of our data. Today critical data no longer lives behind corporate firewalls and security, it lives out on a wide range of mobile devices, laptops, tablets and smartphones, often 1000's of miles away from our datacentre. When our data is so dispersed, how do we ensure we are protecting it on a wide range of different devices, how do we know where it is and what it contains? That is the focus of this weeks podcast, as I'm joined by Yadin Porter De Leon of Druva to discuss the challenge of data that lives right on the edge of our network. We look at the complexity of the problem and why it has too be much more than "backup" and why it's critical we have full visibility of our data, regardless of where it sits in our business. We look at why it is crucial knowing where our data is, what it contains, who has and is accessing it, while ensuring we have it protected and can always find it, regardless of whether our end device is accessible or not. We wrap up our edge data discussion by providing a little bit of listener homework, as we point you in the direction of the kind of questions you should be asking yourself, so you can build a data protection policy for all of your data, not just that which is stored in your datacentre. This is our last show for a few weeks as we head off on a podcasting summer holiday, so I hope you enjoy it. For full show notes check here... http://wp.me/p4IvtA-1jU Have a great summer and thanks for listening.