Cybersecurity safeguards your entire digital infrastructure—networks, applications, systems, and devices—against malicious threats, unauthorized access, and operational disruptions. Data protection focuses on keeping sensitive data safe, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Together, these disciplines form a robust strategy that protects both your IT environment and the valuable data within it.
Protects networks, systems, applications, and devices from threats and unauthorized access.
Secures sensitive data throughout its lifecycle against loss, theft, corruption, or misuse.
Cybersecurity is broader (environment). Data protection is specific (information).
Good governance practices aligned to privacy and accountability principles.
Cybersecurity and data protection together create a comprehensive defense strategy. Cybersecurity focuses on safeguarding the entire IT infrastructure through firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and endpoint protection. Data protection safeguards sensitive information throughout its lifecycle using encryption, access controls, backups, auditing, and data masking—ensuring privacy, integrity, and availability.