Enterprise Mobility: What Defines “Secure”?

Content security has been a top of mind concern for businesses ever since the shift to the cloud. These concerns continue to rise as emerging technologies are introduced.

In response, a growing number of businesses are developing content security strategies to help defend against potential risks and threats. Enterprise mobility security, in particular, remains a top area of focus for businesses, with more having superior security features and measures in place.

Here are 5 simple  security measures you can take to ensure  your content is protected:

• Encryption—the process of encoding information in such a way that only the person or computer with the key can decode it—keeps anyone who intercepts your message from seeing the information that you are sending. With encryption in place, if someone does intercept the sent information, they will have a difficult time getting any useful information out of it, since the data will be unreadable to them without the decoding key. This is an important security measure to take when sending information across different channels.

• Remote device-wiping allows a network administrator or device owner to send a command to a computing device and delete the device’s data. This capability is especially helpful when a device is lost or stolen. Here is a link for more info on remote device-wiping: http://searchconsumerization.techtarget.com/definition/remote-wipe

• Granular control over viewer permissions is necessary for all companies, big and small. Not everyone in your company should have access to certain content, nor should they have the ability to edit this information. This security measure allows you to control what a user can or cannot see and what they can and cannot do. Only allowing users access to the content they need helps prevent information from into the wrong hands.

• Forensic watermarking is a sequence of characters or code that is embedded in a digital document, image, video, or computer program to uniquely identify its originator and authorized user.  These can be repeated at random locations which can make them difficult to detect. The purpose of forensic watermarking is to protect against illegal use and distribution of copyrighted digital works. This can be done by tracking who accesses a piece of content, which then creates an audit trail in case content gets leaked. Here is a link for more information on forensic watermarking: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/forensic-watermark-digital-watermark

• 2-factor authentication takes logging into an account a step further than just entering in a password. 2-factor authentication requires entry of a password and an additional code. This code, for example,  could be a random numeric code sent to your phone, via text message. Incorporating a 2-factor authentication helps reduce the ability for hackers to gain access to your account, keeping content safely protected and confidential.

While none of these measures are fool proof, they provide a good foundation for keeping your content protected.

What security measures do you have in place to help keep your content secure?