4 Ways to Detect and Prevent Misuse of Data
Two years back, I read William Hertling's K ill Process , a thriller recommended by a dear friend. It's about a woman who works for a popular social networking platform, she is a brilliant hacker and privy to all the user information. She uses the data for saving women from abusive relationships. Although the theme of the novel was to save individuals by an empowered woman, the activity can be classified under data misuse. What’s more, even the novel does not recommend it as the protagonist lives in constant fear of being caught red-handed. “The Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study reveals that organizations that we're able to identify and contain a data breach in 30 days or less saved over $1 million compared to those who needed more time.” Data Misuse Defined Data misuse, theft, mining, and manipulation make the headlines every day. Data misuse is the inappropriate usage of data that has been collected by an individual or an organization and used for a...