Security - Get rid of data to help secure it

[Christopher]

I was reading this great article on Wordfence about securing website data.
Its got some great tips,
"The best way to secure data is to delete it"
Key points from the article are

• Backups
• Credit Card Data
• User Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
  
• Leave it to the (real) experts
• Delete old data

The following video interview with Mike, is from Wordfence's Blog.

The Interview with Mike
This was filmed outside the BSides security conference in San Francisco.

For the full article it can be found here: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/03/get-rid-of-data-to-secure-it/

 

[chris]

Very cool @Christopher thanks for sharing.

This is actually a thing that's been getting a lot of traction over the past few years in the tech space. It's at direct odds with the Big Data movement, and what traditional marketers tend to do, which is capture everything.

It's called "Datensparsamkeit", here's a few links to get started if you're keen:

Datensparsamkeit is a German word that's difficult to translate properly into English. It's an attitude to how we capture and store data, saying that we should only handle data that we really need.

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Datensparsamkeit.html

The term Datensparsamkeit is taken from German privacy legislation and describes the idea to only store as much personal information as is absolutely required for the business or applicable laws

http:// https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/datensparsamkeit
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/datensparsamkeit

I think we'll see forms of this here in the future.