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TRENDING
DARK DATA EXCEEDS 57% IN
THE UAE CREATING MAJOR
SECURITY BLIND SPOTS
A report from Veritas states that just 2% of companies
in the UAE have classified all their data in the public
cloud and over half of UAE company data remains
unclassified, despite a rise in security breaches.
B
usinesses across the UAE continue
to house ‘dark data’ within their
organisations, creating a honeypot for
cybercriminals, according to research from
Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in
enterprise data protection and software-
defined storage.
The Value of Data study, conducted by
Vanson Bourne for Veritas, surveyed 1,500
IT decision makers and data managers
www.intelligentcio.com
across 15 countries, including 100 senior
professionals from the UAE. It reveals that
on average, over half (57%) of all data
within organisations remains unclassified or
untagged, indicating that businesses have
limited or no visibility over vast volumes of
potentially business-critical data, creating a
ripe target for hackers.
Classifying data enables organisations to
quickly scan and tag data to ensure that
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A COMPANY’S
DARK DATA
RESERVOIR MAY
BE OUT OF SIGHT
AND OUT OF
MIND FOR MANY
ORGANISATIONS.
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