What Are Best Practices for Data Security for Sensitive Data?

**Executive summary:** This blog post provides an overview of essential practices for protecting sensitive data—identify and classify data, enforce role-based access and least privilege, encrypt data at rest and in transit, apply retention policies, and deploy DLP, MFA, EDR, and network segmentation—while emphasizing growing third‑party and cloud risks, the prevalence of breaches involving vendors, and the need for continuous monitoring; it concludes by promoting SecurityScorecard’s SCDR solution for real‑time third‑party threat detection.