As a result of massive data breaches experienced by major corporations in every industry, data security is the talk of the tech world. It has also become a board-level topic. As these highly-publicized data breaches show, security – or the lack of it – can have enormous economic and brand/reputation impact. A security failure can cause a company to go into crisis mode.

Compounding today’s data security challenge, there is a huge mismatch – a massive gap – between what customers actually need and what today’s security technology can deliver. From a customer’s perspective, security technology should protect an enterprise against anything that could materially impact it, such as a massive data breach. It also should be easy to use, unobtrusive and not create an impediment to productivity or critical activities, such as connecting to partners, developing new applications or automating new business processes.

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