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RSAC insights: Concentric AI directs Google’s search techniques towards locking down data sprawl

The Last Watchdog

Security teams generally knew which on-premises server held certain batches of both structured and unstructured data; they could narrowly control access to a company’s on-premises data centers, and that was deemed good-enough, security-wise, he says.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Part of this process includes identifying where and how data is stored—on-premises, in third-party servers or in the cloud. While an organization might already know the location of structured data such as a primary customer database store, unstructured data (such as that found in stray files and emails) is more difficult to locate.

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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. It contains elements of both organized and unorganized data.

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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. Out of sheer ignorance, someone can put a secret document in a folder with public access or request unnecessary privileges for working with files.

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Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024

Centraleyes

Demonstrate your dedication to data privacy and ethics with strong policies and a clean record, and you’ll earn the vital trust that is the foundation of long-term consumer loyalty. Better Insurance Rates: Cyber insurance providers include data security in their actuarial analysis.

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Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The volume of confidential documents created daily is, frankly, incalculable, and the volume of “everything” distributed across multiple data centers around the world is much, much more. Once you’ve discovered and classified the sensitive data, you need analyze and summarize the risk. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30.

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7 Step Data Loss Prevention Checklist for 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Being an essential part of data protection, the process of data inventory involves data discovery and data classification, helping organizations to understand, remediate, and manage privacy risks. Understand when data is at risk. You need to know what actions increase the risk of data loss.