Among the vast amount of challenges that modern IT teams have to deal with on a daily basis, the risks posed by unstructured data can be critical. As well as opening environments up to the threat of data breach, organisations could be missing out on valuable insights by not knowing what data they have and where it sits. Despite the use of expensive management applications, unstructured data is a minefield of an organisation’s most critical information and most obsolete, invaluable data.
Unstructured data refers to data that is not stored or contained in a database or a different type of data structure.
A lack of understanding of the data within a business can stem from and be caused by many factors. As businesses grow and expand so does their data, and the policies in place to ensure control, and protect, may become outdated, unsuitable or improperly enforced.
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