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Government data is of significant sensitivity and therefore needs to be placed in a hyper-protective environment, safe from cyber threats and other security risks.
Data is vital to the delivery of public services and interruption to the data supply can cause disruption to businesses, public services and constituents. Government has a responsibility to manage the risks imposed on the data to ensure the continuous delivery of services and maintain protection of the data.
One of the most prolific threats on civilisation today is cyberterrorism, which has been exasperated by the shift in the ways in which work as a result of the pandemic. As the world moves into the recovery phase, data security is rising to the top of the government agenda.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden started to lead the charge on cyberterrorism and issued an executive order to ‘improve the nation’s cybersecurity’. The executive order zoned in on data security:
- Within 60 days get things as secure as possible and remediate cyber risk.
- Within 180 days, they all need to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and encryption both at-rest and in-transit.
- Implement and test an incident response plan. Test your contingency plans to ensure that critical functions can continue to operate during a cyber-attack.
In November 2020, the Digital Secretary for UK Government published the National Data Strategy, that stated “Ensuring the security and resilience of the infrastructure on which data relies” formed part of the mission.
- We need to ensure the infrastructure underpinning it is safe, secure and resilient.
- We need to protect it (data) appropriately from security risks and other potential service disruption.
- We will also take a greater responsibility in ensuring that data is sufficiently protected when in transit, or when stored in external data centres.
Enforcing cyber security policies and maintaining up-to-date tech is also an important factor to creating a strong shield around data and its clear to see that governments in the worlds leading countries are leading the charge on data security.
In order to avoid the data being exposed or stolen, simply place the data on encrypted storage devices that are kept away from the main system. The benefits of including encrypted storage solutions to your IT security plan are:
- Avoid becoming infected with malware by keeping the devices disconnected from the main system.
- iStorage devices automatically encrypt all data and therefore remove the value of the data to hackers.
- As the files are encrypted, they cannot be exposed and exploited in return for ransom payments.
- Create a secure back up, at the very least for the most critical business data to restore should data be stolen and the ransom payment is rejected by the business.
- iStorage USB encrypted devices are configured with a unique VID/PID allowing whitelisting to meet internal corporate requirements.
iStorage has been developing innovative encrypted USB Flash, HDD and SSD devices since 2009. Using military specified encryption levels, we ensure that all users of iStorage products are fully protected against data leakage, helping our customers comply to data protection and confidentiality laws.
Our solutions are trusted by public and private organisations across government, banking & finance, legal, healthcare, military and defence sectors, and many more, in over 50 countries.
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