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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Without adequate backups, the data they house can be lost forever.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

Data Security & Recovery Measures Reliable CSPs provide high-level security and backup services; in the event of data loss, recovery is possible. Users have direct control over data security but are also responsible for backup procedures and permanently lost data in the event of device damage or loss.

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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of sensitive data

Malwarebytes

Wiz Research found that Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

With the increase in the complexity of IT infrastructures and the various ways of storing data, safeguarding against data leaks has become more resource-intensive. Data access control raises many questions not only among users but sometimes also among security professionals. Who is the protentional customer of such solutions?

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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake

SecureWorld News

This problem becomes even more pronounced when dealing with vast amounts of data. The difference between Security Data Lake and Data Lake Corporate Data Lakes usually store unstructured data, including details about the company's products, financial metrics, customer data, marketing materials, etc.