To mitigate risks, protect sensitive business information, and ensure effective information governance, 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.
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.
If you can’t pinpoint your sensitive data, understand how it’s used across the organization, and then define and apply appropriate policies to it, your company may be exposed to significant business, legal, regulatory and reputational risks.
To reduce your data-related risks, you must be able to answer a variety of critical questions, including:
- Where is my company’s sensitive business data actually located?
- Can I identify and effectively manage all copies and versions of sensitive business documents?
- Are all my sensitive business documents appropriately protected?
- Who is actually accessing sensitive business data? And who has access rights on this data?
- To whom is sensitive business information being sent?
- Are the correct security and retention policies being applied to sensitive information?
- Can I prove this to an outside auditor?
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