To Defend Your Data, Protect Your People Not Just Your Devices
Proofpoint, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Identifying and protecting all the devices that access your data is an unbounded problem-in other words, you never know when it is complete.
Compare that to identifying and protecting all your users. This is easy because with very few exceptions they all have an email address, which is essentially their identity as far as data access is concerned. So, it makes sense that when you're looking to protect your organization and your data, you should focus on protecting your people.
Perimeter defenses can't defend data
The threat landscape has evolved over the years and continues to do so. The early days of viruses written by individuals infecting files to show off their programming skills has developed into a multimillion-dollar business.
Threat actors work together buying and selling information and access. In today's landscape, individual machines aren't the targets. Instead, whole organizations are the targets-and those organizations are made up of people.