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While it might seem initially abstract, sustainability and data security are symbiotic. Allow me to explain. Regardless of the action or industry, critical data touches everything. Whether data is being used in pharmaceutical research, financial records, or intellectual property, securing it is the common imperative. This is especially true as it moves through various access points, the cloud, applications, the web, and various other transactions.
Protecting data has a lot more to do with sustainability than it might seem. Consider the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #9: evolving industry, innovation, and infrastructure. This SDG references “promoting sustainable industries, and investing in scientific research and innovation, are all important ways to facilitate sustainable development.” To properly support these industries and activities we need to have clean, secure data to ensure this development work is feasible, accurate and safe. Today’s innovators—as well as tomorrow’s— rely on inherent or implied data protection, and also secure data collection and capture.
That data is ever more at risk in a hyper-connected world. Statistically, cybercrime is outpacing the economic burden of environmental disasters year over year. What does this mean for the progress of infrastructure and innovation? Every resource spent on a data breach, is one less asset focused on critical work in these development areas. And, if recent White House cybersecurity strategy, or the