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Protecting data has never been more important
In the energy sector, there has been a growing number of attacks centered 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 organization, but also the customer, causing untold financial and reputational damage.
Add to this the cost of regulatory compliance and the financial penalties resulting from successful breaches, and it becomes clear that ensuring the security of all endpoints has never been more important.
Challenge
A major player in the EMEA energy space needed to ensure they could protect endpoints while also empowering employees to continue to use portable data, whether in the office or carrying out critical functions in the field. The existing solution was the use of unencrypted USB drives, a practice that 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. The use of seemingly draconian and obtrusive security measures can lead to the use of workarounds that are less secure, cannot be tracked, and that open 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 were to happen.
