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As a CISO or someone responsible for your company’s and clients’ data, you are charged with protecting the most sensitive information. You manage

. You evaluate and make decisions on technology investments. You help shape the company’s digital transformation. And, within the last 90 days, your operating model was likely turned on its head.

Your role is more critical than ever. And, your challenges are increasingly complex. Threats are rising, systems and budgets are stretched, and we are all facing a new reality with the COVID crisis.

If you deal with data, there’s one simple truth: you can’t comply if you don’t know your company’s data flows. Privacy regulations, information security, incident management, records management, and more require insight into data flows to meet regulatory obligations, executive expectations, or customer demand.

That reality has made understanding data flows the new standard of care for anyone involved or responsible for enterprise data. To meet that standard of care, they need to be able to answer

Without answers to all five questions, a company isn’t in compliance and is exposed.

, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, declared, “The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the digitization of businesses and ushered in a new era of technology… It is my assertion that in 2020 and beyond, most organizations are going to be transforming into a completely cloud-based environment,

where any workers can access any application or service from anywhere at any time.”

Many companies, including social media giants Twitter and Facebook, have already announced permanent work-from-home options in response to the pandemic. With the rest of the office-occupying workforce expecting this new “operational reality” to be made permanent for them as well, those responsible for ensuring they understand what’s going on in a remote work environment and that it’s secure are being challenged like

Data breaches are inevitable and are becoming more frequent and damaging—i

n 2019 alone, over 7,000 data breaches were reported

, averaging nearly 20 per day. This is an unfortunate consequence of increased data sprawl, cyberattacks, and security challenges in a remote and distributed work environment. This means that every organization should be prepared to rapidly identify and secure sensitive data: the only question is whether this happens in response to an incident or in preparation for one.

Data breaches are increasingly prevalent and virtually inevitable. I

n 2019 alone, over 7,000 data breaches were reported

of this Incident Management series, we covered how to prepare for a breach—but sometimes, despite the best of intentions, organizations just don’t have the bandwidth, budget, or resources to prepare the way they should in advance of an attack.

Ready or not, it happened. A cyber threat came knocking, and,

whether the response was a drill or a scramble, the crisis has been resolved

, and the organization survived to fight another day. Now what? This is the time to capitalize on the work done to shore up the foundation against future attacks.