This article was originally published at nightfall.ai
It’s well-established that a data breach is an extremely costly event. By some estimates, a data leak can cost a small to medium-sized business more than $7.68 million per incident.
Compliance regimes may seem burdensome, but the goal of these policies is to prevent a devastating data breach that can bankrupt a business and cause myriad problems for consumers. It’s important to understand the differences between compliance and security, as well as how data loss prevention (DLP) allows your organization to accomplish both objectives efficiently and affordably.
Here’s what you need to know about cloud DLP and prevalent compliance policies like HIPAA, GDPR, and others.
Cloud compliance vs. cloud security: what’s the difference?
Cloud compliance and cloud security overlap, but these are two different areas of practice. Cloud compliance refers to the regulations and policies designed to protect individuals and companies from the impact of data loss. More specifically, compliance focuses on the type of data collected and stored by a business, as well as the regulatory frameworks that apply to data protection. Cloud security is made up of the physical tools and platforms that protect and defend customer and company data. This could include software like VPNs, DLP platforms like Nightfall, and tools like multifactor authentication. Cloud security also requires action-oriented cloud security policies that are updated regularly to reflect changes in the business and new online threats
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