Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to ...

The federal government is facing down the challenge of big data with old-school tactics that can leave gaps within data discovery and classification. It’s time to move on to new practices, with modern ...

EMC Corp. this week brought out software that it said can help users manage unstructured files. The new tool can help users in efforts to comply with government regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ...

When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, ...

For all the time that storage managers spend worrying about safeguarding their organization's data, many of them know little about the objects of their obsession. They usually know how much total data ...

As organizations evolve, traditional data classification—typically designed for regulatory, finance or customer data—is being stretched to accommodate employee data. While classification processes and ...

Businesses spend millions of dollars on security technology such as firewalls, sandboxes and endpoint tools, but so many of the breaches have to do with poor policy ...