CIO OPINION

Your attack surface is continually growing as more people work remotely on multiple devices .

Ivan Pittaluga , CTO , Arcserve

Ivan Pittaluga , CTO at Arcserve , reveals four data protection and management trends to keep an eye on in the year ahead .

The attack surface will continue to expand as ways of working evolve

Your attack surface includes all the possible ways an attacker can get into your company ’ s devices and networks and lock up or exfiltrate your data . So , it ’ s essential to keep your attack surface to a minimum . The problem is that your attack surface is continually growing as more people work remotely on multiple devices and create more entry points for cybercriminals to carry out cyberattacks .

Worse still , the attack surface is constantly changing . It isn ’ t a single surface but many disparate fragments . Furthermore , control of endpoints is becoming increasingly complex as employees leave organizations and retrieval of equipment becomes harder . The bottom line is that breaches will inevitably happen . And in the coming year , companies will have to do a better job of recognizing breaches so they can extricate themselves as quickly as possible . Security and recovery strategies must be more thorough and practiced . As the attack surface expands , those strategies must cover not only your on-premises data but data in the cloud , at the Edge , and everywhere in between .

Data sovereignty will create even greater complexity for data management

As companies have grown globally and become more interconnected , the rules around data privacy

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