Data Security Solutions for Outsourcing Service Providers
Protecting Data in Outsourced Environments
Outsourcing is a highly attractive strategy in today's economic environment and competitive global market. Enterprises outsource a variety of functions to third parties to reduce costs and time to market, free up resources to concentrate on core capabilities, and gain a competitive edge. Global outsourcing offers these substantial benefits, but also poses some notable security challenges.
The free flow of non-public information (NPI), customer confidential information (CCI) and intellectual property (IP) in the form of digital information such as source code, engineering drawings, personally identifiable information (PII), PCI compliance affected data and cardholder information has created a dilemma for companies that outsource -- how do you safeguard digital information and still provide the access third-party partners need to get the job done?
Outsourcing is not simply the privilege of large corporations anymore either. Small and medium businesses are now taking advantage of this new opportunity to leverage economical outsourced resources. According to a study by USA TODAY, nearly 40% of start-ups employ engineers, marketers, analysts and others in jobs created in India and other nations.
How Safe Is Your Customer's Data Right Now?
Outsourcing raises data security concerns as enterprises need assurance that the data provided to an outsourcer is strongly protected from compromise. Outsourcing to the international market makes data security an even greater concern. Many of the tasks delegated to offshore service providers require companies to entrust their outsourcing partner with sensitive data. Sensitive personal information such as tax returns and credit card data tend to be top-of-mind in the public eye, but outsourcing also poses a costly threat to intellectual property. In outsourcing relationships, a company must often provide the partner with access to vital IP assets which are the key to the company's competitive edge. Exposing this valuable information to outsiders can pose significant risks.
Vormetric Data Security Solution for an Outsourced Environment
Vormetric Data Security solutions enable enterprises to secure the information being sent to the outsourced environment while the enterprise establishes and controls access to the data. Outsourcers can also use Vormetric Data Security as a value-added offering to ensure their customers that their enterprise data is secure.
Vormetric Data Security solutions are transparent to applications and databases, so no modifications to the IT infrastructure are required. Vormetric Data Security for Outsourcing Service Providers supports all leading databases as well as unstructured data stores on Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.
