In an article for the IAPP, Todd Walls, a former senior privacy analyst within the US government, discusses why data protection practitioners need to understand how different databases work in order to ensure personal data is handled securely. The article highlights NoSQL databases, designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data across multiple servers, which Walls describes as the backbone of next-generation web apps that need to scale quickly and perform efficiently. To prevent a personal data breach or security incident, practitioners need to understand where potential vulnerabilities could be exploited.
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