Dark Data @ Putting Your Organization at Risk?
Gartner refers to this data as "dark data"—the information that organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes. Saving dark data that’s outlived its shelf life and utility to your business is sloppy at best and dangerous at worst.
How pervasive is dark data? A recent survey found, on average, 54 percent of an organization’s data was stale, which adds to storage costs, wasted resources, data management complications and security risks.
Dark data puts your organization at risk in these three major areas:
· Security dangers
· Compliance issues
· Cloud and hybrid storage concerns
While dark data poses serious risks to your organization, you can start gaining the upper hand. Get started with these tips:
- Remove or archive data that no longer provides value.
- Monitor and alert when the information you must retain exhibits signs of unauthorized access.
- Prioritize and reduce unnecessary access to data.
- Take a hard look at the regulated, out-of-policy data lurking within files and remove or archive accordingly.
- Cloud storage isn’t set it and forget it. Never assume your data is safe in the cloud.
- Maintain and enforce a strong security policy to manage access control and data protection.
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Regards
Mr. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library & Information Science (NET Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan & Co
Twitter Handle | @Pralhad161978
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