The network perimeter is no longer the key component to safeguarding enterprise data. A zero-trust strategy is necessary today. Zero-trust encompasses a set of principles that safeguards subjects, enterprise assets, and resources. These principles include “never trust, always verify”, “assume breach” and “least privileged access”.

A Policy Administration Point (PAP) is a component of a policy engine. PAP’s are often used by enterprise administrators to define fine-grained access entitlements for enterprise users who need access to managed software components and provides centralized policy administration, management, and monitoring of access policies through the PAP administration control center.

Many businesses operate in a data access mode known as “default to know,” particularly when they are in hyper-growth mode. The result is that there can be an uncontrolled and overly permissive approach to data access which can lead to hidden costs in terms of security and compliance. Now, it is possible to transition from “default to know” to “need to know” without stifling innovation by using DataSecOps.

A Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) protects an enterprise’s data by enforcing access control as a vital component of the XACML architecture. A PEP works with a Policy Decision Point (PDP) to interpret policies to control the behavior of the network devices in order to satisfy both the users and administrators of network resources.

As more data is shared across enterprise networks, file servers, and cloud environments, organizations need a solution to not only protect data within the enterprise but also when shared. This brings about the question, how do you continuously protect data once the file has been shared? The answer is persistent file protection.

Product designs created by designers and engineers with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tend to be deemed as intellectual property (IP) of the organization. Very often, these valuable assets need to be shared internally with employees and externally, which becomes risky. Digital Rights Management is crucial to mitigate these risks.

Data-centric security involves technologies, processes, and policies whose focus is on the location of the data, its collection, storage, and visibility. It seeks to protect data throughout its lifecycle rather than conventional approaches which entail securing networks, servers, and applications. The concept of data-centric security is based on five key elements: identifying, understanding, controlling, protecting, and auditing.

A Policy Decision Point (PDP) is a mechanism that evaluates access requests to resources against the authorization policies that apply to all requests for accessing that resource to determine whether specific access should be granted to the particular user who issued the request. Part of the PDP’s responsibility is to find a policy that applies to a given request.

Because of the potential impact unauthorized access can have on a business, it is very important that organizations implement robust data segregation measures to limit access to sensitive data. On shared systems, since data cannot be segregated physically, it must be segregated virtually, using a combination of data access policies and encryption to make it impossible for unauthorized access to the data.

Many enterprises need to securely protect information and comply with export control regulations. Export controls govern the information that cannot be shared with international suppliers without first obtaining a license or approval. This limits the sensitive data transferred to foreign countries or representatives, with the goal of protecting national security and implementing foreign policies.