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All businesses today are tasked with protecting the sensitive information they store and process, which means any business will benefit from the use of clean room technology. However, the benefits are even more significant in heavily regulated industries, such as healthcare, financial services, and government agencies, who are also often prime targets for cybercrime.
These sectors are under constant pressure to protect valuable information against cyber threats, including patient data, financial records, or government communications.
With cybercrime on the rise, businesses in these and other sectors must have solutions in place to prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with stringent regulations. However, preventing a breach is not always possible, so as an additional layer of defence, clean room technology provides a secure, isolated environment for storing and recovering data, mitigating the risk of data loss or corruption due to cyberattacks or internal errors.
Clean room technology’ s ability to create an air-gapped, tamper-proof environment helps companies meet compliance standards.
Modeen Malick, Principal Systems Engineer, Commvault
As with organisations across the globe, African businesses are subject to a range of regulatory requirements, particularly around data protection and privacy. Clean room technology’ s ability to create an air-gapped, tamper-proof environment helps companies meet these compliance standards while reducing the risk of non-compliance penalties.
Africa businesses face additional challenges, including operational issues. For example, limited IT infrastructure and budget can make it difficult to implement robust data protection solutions. As an advantage, clean room technology can be deployed on top of existing systems, eliminating the need for significant hardware investment and providing a costeffective way to enhance cybersecurity.
Power outages are another challenge that disrupts business continuity across the continent. In South Africa, for example, rolling blackouts, or load shedding, can bring operations to a halt, endangering the availability of critical data. Clean room technology helps mitigate the impact of such disruptions by offering quick data recovery solutions, ensuring that businesses can get back on track swiftly without significant downtime.
Beyond the immediate security advantages, clean room technology offers long-term operational benefits. By offering immutable storage, it ensures that once critical data is written, it cannot be altered or deleted, providing peace of mind that the integrity of business-critical information is maintained. Additionally, the centralised data management feature of clean room technology simplifies the process of managing, protecting, and recovering data across an organisation, streamlining workflows and improving efficiency.
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