With data growing at a rate of 50% per year and the demand for access to data from employees, partners and customers at an all time high, it’s no secret to IT that the complexity of managing and protecting this data is growing faster than their available resources.
This article, written in plain English, looks at how to effectively implement secure collaboration while proactively monitoring for unauthorized use. It looks at the new technologies which are needed to keep up with the explosive growth of unstructured data and collaboration requirements.
While there are a number of software solutions focused on data management and protection, only a select few effectively employ metadata framework technology, which can identify sensitive data 90% faster than traditional classification methods. The article examines how to answer these critical questions:-
- Who has access to a data set?
- Which data is sensitive?
- Where is my sensitive data overexposed, and how do I fix it?
- Who has been accessing it?
- Which folders need an owner?
- Who is the likely data owner?
- Who has unnecessary permissions to each data set?