Organizational risk continues to climb as data breaches overwhelm today’s information security technologies and practices. Despite billions expended on information security every year, highly motivated cyber gangs, organized crime and nation states are winning the cyber-arms race. Once networks and systems are breached, sensitive data seems to be pilfered at will.

And organizations acknowledge their vulnerabilities; hundreds of publicly traded companies detail that sensitive information is at risk and no assurances can be made about the safety, privacy and integrity of their sensitive information. According to research by Informatica and Ponemon Institute, titled “The State of Data Security Intelligence,” organizations perceive more risk as they have less confidence about their understanding of their sensitive data. They have low confidence in having a current and accurate accounting of sensitive data location, risk, value and protection. And organizations struggle to track data use and movement to ensure they comply with the byzantine landscape of privacy laws and regulations.

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