5 ways to Stay Cyber Resilience Amidst the Unstructured Data Explosion

The volume of unstructured data—or data that exists outside of conventional data tools, such as relational databases—is exploding. According to IDC, unstructured data accounts for 90% of all data. But here’s the kicker: A quarter of organizations say that data is growing faster than they can keep up with.1 That’s worrisome because unstructured data includes tons of sensitive information like intellectual property (IP), personal data, research findings, and more.

So, if your most valuable intellectual property—including research data, product designs, source code, engineering models, and scientific discoveries (all of which are unstructured data)—gets attacked, you could lose years of work, your competitive advantage, and irreplaceable business knowledge.

You need a way to protect all that unstructured data, but that’s a huge challenge. Not only is the volume of unstructured data huge, but it’s also extremely fragmented and scattered across different storage systems and locations (on-premises network attached storage, object stores, etc.), which makes manually keeping track of it difficult.