Managing Secure Data Delivery: A Data Roundhouse Model

Managing data securely in today's corporate enterprise is no mean feat. What once entailed simple permissions controlling access to information locked within glasshouses or stored within data warehouses now means also controlling transport as it replicates around the worldwide web or bounces back and forth between business-to-business end-points. Data, once stationary, is now energized, always in route to its next destination. Managing this data securely with the same expectations once placed on its static predecessor is presenting a new challenge to the security professional that needs to be addressed quickly. The analogy of a traditional roundhouse, where railroad engineers manage and redirect the delivery of millions of tons of payload, reinforces the most important goal in the data delivery process: manage data securely from the start and secure it throughout its delivery all the way to its destination.