Data-centric security

<p>Data-centric security is an approach to security that emphasizes the dependability of the <a href="/facts/Data/AUBFN97o">data</a> itself rather than the security of <a href="/facts/Computer_network/3w5RM99p">networks</a>, <a href="/facts/Server_(computing)/dEaYFD7r">servers</a>, or applications. Data-centric security is evolving rapidly as enterprises increasingly rely on digital information to <a href="/facts/Business_process/fYH2eREc">run their business</a> and <a href="/facts/Big_data/XGtrVg4z">big data</a> projects become mainstream.

It involves the separation of data and <a href="/facts/Digital_rights_management/4AF8JmDt">digital rights management</a> that assign encrypted files to pre-defined access control lists, ensuring access rights to critical and confidential data are aligned with documented business needs and job requirements that are attached to user identities.
</p><p>Data-centric security also allows organizations to overcome the disconnect between IT security technology and the objectives of business strategy by relating security services directly to the data they implicitly protect; a relationship that is often obscured by the presentation of security as an end in itself.
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Data-centric security