To mitigate risks, ensure compliance, and maintain good information governance across your unstructured data, you must be able to accurately identify all sensitive data and know how it’s used across your organization. But sensitive data can exist in many forms—including spreadsheets, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations—and can reside anywhere across your organization. If you can’t pinpoint this data and then apply appropriate policies to it, your company may be exposed to significant legal, regulatory and reputational risks.
To make matters worse, sensitive data quickly assumes a life of its own. It may be stored incorrectly, accessed by unauthorized people, or leaked—intentionally or unintentionally—through public file shares, email or other means. So you have to be able to take the necessary measures to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Is Your Sensitive Business Information at Risk?
To mitigate your data-related risks, you must be able to answer a variety of critical questions, including:
- Is all my sensitive business data stored in the right place?
- Have I found all copies and versions of sensitive business documents?
- Are all my sensitive business documents appropriately protected?
- Do I really know who’s receiving all of my sensitive business information?
- Am I effectively applying all of my security and retention policies to all of my sensitive information?
- Can I prove any of the above to an outside auditor?
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