Rethinking Data Security: From Tool Sprawl to Data-Centric Protection

Modern data infrastructure protection remains inefficient due to reliance on numerous specialized security tools, prompting a shift toward data-centric protection. With 1,348 cyberattack incidents in H1 2025 targeting government, healthcare, financial, and IT sectors, existing approaches fall short—the core challenge is maintaining real-time understanding of where sensitive data exists. Data protection has evolved through four stages from manual management in the 1980s toward directly protecting data itself.