In today’s cybersecurity world, there are many approaches and platforms.  Each having a value and benefit, yet data breach is still daily news. 

From an expansive list of options, MFA, EDR, Network/Pen testing, EXD, SIEM, SOAR and others, offer endless solutions to the CISO that consume a company’s IT resources, budget and sanity. 

With so many options, why do we continue to have stats like these?

• 50% of organizations experienced a loss of sensitive data in the previous year, (according to a Rubrik 2023 report).
• 94% of businesses reported a significant cyberattack with a 70% year-over-year increase in publicly reported ransomware attacks last year, (according to a Rubrik 2024 report).
• Billions of records were breached in 2024, with National Public Data breach potentially affecting 2.9 billion records alone, and AT&T had 2 major breaches affecting more than 100M individuals. 
• 82% of data breaches involved data stored in the cloud, (according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023).

With all of this ‘bad news’ about data security, it is time to take a new approach. 

Historically, the best solutions have involved layered security strategies. Just as the Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople’s kingdom for 1,000 years.  

Applying layered cybersecurity solutions enhances the protection of sensitive data.

Credential management and network security are absolute necessities. Layered monitoring, AI analytics and EDR and the like continue to improve. Penetration testing gives the user a sense of exposure to bad actors getting in. Reporting and alerting may be too little, too late. At this point, has the damage already been done?

With 74% of all breaches involving some human element, even the best defense will not always keep the bad actors out, especially with credentialed users.

Adding the next layer of data protection by “keeping the data in,” reduces the threat plane and enhances a company’s ability to protect sensitive data.   

Data has value, and unlocking that value creates a risk where data in use is not encrypted and becomes more difficult to protect. Preventing data exfiltration by keeping the data in is the added layer to existing security solutions that cover gaps in the protection landscape. i4 Ops offers this next layer of cybersecurity. With a patented approach, i4 Zero Exfil is a product that prevents data exfiltration, keeping data in, even when bad actors have access to it. This is comparable to adding another layer of protection to the scheme of The Walls of Theodosian. The key is to secure data in use, secure data from credential abuse, and add another layer of protection of sensitive data.  

If you’d like to learn more, contact us today.