Data Classification
What is the Purpose of Data Classification?
Every day, businesses are collecting, storing and using more and more data. Yet storing huge amounts of data in an unorganized manner (known as unstructured data) is both expensive and risky ...
7 Ways Imperva Solutions Reduce the Cost of Data Security
As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets ...
SaaS Eliminates Barriers to Applying Security Controls to Your Entire AWS and Azure Data Repository
Businesses today widely regard data as “the new oil,” the most valuable resource on earth. At the same time, we are in the midst of the most dynamic IT landscape in history ...
7 Ways Good Data Security Practices Drive Data Governance
As more organizations continue with digital transformation plans, their ability to be good stewards of the data for which they are responsible becomes more difficult. They are generating more data, more data ...
How to Correctly Classify Your Data in 2022
Data classification can feel like an overwhelming task, especially for organizations without a strong practice in place. As with any security approach, data classification is both crucial and tempting to avoid. Regardless ...
“Don’t touch that server. Ralf set that up, and we don’t know what it does.”
Based on a true story… More than a couple of decades ago, I went to work for a network and web company as their customer marketing department. It was a crazy time ...
Five Data Security Controls and Processes you Must Bring to Cloud-native Infrastructures
Too frequently, there are significant misunderstandings in organizations with regard to who has the responsibility to protect cloud-hosted data. In Imperva’s recent report, A Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Cloud Data for Digital ...
Data Classification Tools: 5 Ways You Will Benefit From Automation
As the amount of data held by organizations grows at a rapid rate, so does their attack surface and compliance risk. The only true way to mitigate this risk is to firstly ...
What is Dark Data, and how can we find it?
What is “dark data”? The term “dark data” refers to “any information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities but generally fail to use for other purposes” [Gartner] ...
How Organizations Manage to Understand Millions of Unstructured Data Files at Scale
For an ever-growing segment of organizations, making sense of unstructured data is fast becoming imperative. It is also far more challenging. Unlike structured data that’s stored in rows and columns, text-based, and ...
