In anticipation of new data privacy and cyber-attack regulations, and to better safeguard their sensitive data, companies are increasing their data management efforts. The first step—identifying what they have—may be the hardest.
In this era of data proliferation, companies are struggling to get a handle on the information they are creating and collecting, in an attempt to make sense of it all. Most companies begin by mapping the data they have. It consists of categorizing the information in terms of sensitivity and usefulness, and in most cases, purging what isn’t needed.
