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With Atlassian ending support in February 2024 for Jira Software Server – an on-premises deployment of Jira Software - what’s your plan for data protection if you choose to migrate to the cloud? While Atlassian has plenty of tools in place out of the box to protect your data, there’s always more you can do to help prevent data loss.

There’s a massive elephant in the room: unstructured data. It’s valuable, and it needs to be protected. Let’s talk about why.

Most insider threat programs start with the same question: What is a user doing? That is the right question to start with, but the wrong one to stop at. The more important question is what happened to the data. An employee who uploads a sensitive file to a personal Google Drive account at 11 p.m. the night before they resign is a clear signal. But what about the engineer who gradually copies source code fragments into a generative AI (genAI) coding assistant over three months?

Like so many legacy technologies, legacy data loss prevention (DLP) tools fail to deliver the protection today’s organizations need. Implementation challenges, visibility gaps and inconsistent policies negatively impact customers and make data breaches far too easy for adversaries. With U.S. data breach costs averaging a staggering $4.45 million last year, organizations need a way to better secure their data as cloud adoption accelerates and IT environments evolve.

The rapid growth we see ourselves in regarding technology has caused businesses to change to digital methods to secure data quickly. The time limitations businesses face to secure their data quickly and effectively may cause the security standards to drop, leaving companies wide open to cybercrime. Cybercrime remains a global problem in 2023, reflected in the rising costs of data breaches and increased attacks on businesses and people’s data.

The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) has decided its’ about time to call for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s first data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), originally included a public consultation component when it was launched by SDAIA in late 2022. Since then, the public consultation was withdrawn, and the draft version of the data protection law augmenting PDPL was issued.