Data protection: Safety starts at home

The key to data protection is ensuring all users in the organisation know what they should and shouldn’t be doing, writes Dermot Hayden, country manager of Sophos Ireland

Dermot Hayden, country manager, Sophos Ireland

‘Often we look at IT security in relation to a business trying to protect against outward attackers. But really, you can have a malware breach internally,” said Sophos Ireland country manager Dermot Hayden.

“You can go to the trouble of putting in place wonderful technology and encrypting all of your data, but if the wrong person in your organisation has the keys to the data and they can read it, then that’s a ...