It is said that the best-run organisations prioritise cybersecurity spending as a business decision first. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Data Security 2023 reflects the increasing dominance of this approach. As key technologies needed for assessing and quantifying cloud risk mature, we see the continuing emergence of new technologies purpose-built to protect against emerging threats that inevitably arise alongside these new technologies.
One such is data immutability – a concept that grew in prominence with the invention of blockchain technology in 2008. The concept has since gained traction outside of the confines of its origin including in data protection and cybersecurity.
What is data immutability? How does it impact organisations under regulatory compliance? Martin Creighan, vice president of Asia Pacific with Commvault, defines data immutability as the ability of any data to be maintained in a non-fungible or non-replaceable state for a specific duration of time.
“What that means is that enterprises need to save a version of their data that cannot be altered, deleted, or overwritten, and they need that, in the cases where they might be under attack, and they need to be able to recover data,” he elaborated.
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