Enterprise data security has always been about protecting sensitive data and ensuring that it doesn’t fall into the hands of unauthorized people. It’s there to prevent the leaks that could result from an outside attack, a misconfiguration or even an insider. When all data was housed within an enterprise data center, IT security staff had a centralized location to protect what was finite and more predictable. However, the world has moved on from an era when data resided only on user devices and within the walls of an enterprise data center.
