As “dark fiber” is to the telecommunications industry so, also, is “dark data” to many businesses and organizations. These vast pools of untapped, largely unprotected data simply sit there, doing not much of anything for the bottom line.

Isaac Sacolik’s Dark Data: A Business Definition describes it as “data that is kept ‘just in case’ but hasn’t (so far) found a proper usage.”

Unfortunately, where dark fiber unambiguously represents an asset just waiting to be tapped by simply lighting it up to add bandwidth and carrying capacity, even untapped and neglected, dark data can pose security risks should it fall into the wrong hands, or range outside its owner’s control.

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