The world has moved towards becoming a data-driven digital environment, dealing with a lot of data, making it the most valued asset today. Enterprises struggle with managing and ensuring data security with a traditional security approach and limited visibility on data transactions.
Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated with time, and it has become imperative for organizations to develop an effective and secure data governance strategy for preventing them. Data governance is the process of providing and protecting data throughout its lifecycle.
A sniffer is a software or hardware tool that allows users to monitor internet traffic in real-time. It has various benefits such as monitoring network traffic, identifying invalid nodes, and debugging application traffic. But sniffers have downsides as well. Cybercriminals use sniffers to tap into a network and capture confidential information.
The old approach of perimeter security doesn’t hold well in modern landscape weighed down with increased breach incidents. A data security approach is the need of the hour.