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Ask an ExpertProtecting data has never been more important
In the energy sector, there has been a growing number of attacks centred on the industry, its processes and on the data that it holds. Many of these breaches are often front-page news, not only impacting the functions of the organisation, but also the customer, causing untold financial and reputational damage.
Compound this with regulatory compliance and the financial penalties, as a consequence of successful breaches, ensuring all endpoints are secure, has never been more important.
Challenge
A major player in the EMEA energy space needed to ensure they could protect endpoints, all while empowering employees to continue to use portable data, whether they are in the office or carrying out critical functions in the field. The incumbent solution was the use of unencrypted USB drives, which was quickly identified as a vulnerability.
Given the unique circumstances of how energy companies operate, where employees don’t always have connectivity to their core business systems, enabling portable storage continues to be a critical business requirement.
This means that, although the solution may appear simple, there are other considerations to make sure these endpoints are secure, but not at the expense of usability for employees. If there are seemingly draconian and obtrusive security measures, these can invoke workaround methods which are less secure, cannot be tracked, and opens the doors to nefarious applications and viruses.
At the same time – it is always prudent to incorporate wider layers of protection to mitigate risks – if the worst was to happen.
