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IT Survey: We Can't Control Access To Data
computerworld.com — A survey of 870 IT professionals by the Ponemon Institute revealed 84% believe too many people have access to unstructured data and 76% said they have no policy to control which employees can get data off of file servers and NAS devices.
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- AmyVernon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4ok, i have to admit i only half understood this story, but what i did understand sounded pretty bad in terms of keeping data safe...
- whiterice0, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Unstructured data is stuff like e-mails, a word processing document, video and audio files.
From Wikipedia: Merrill Lynch estimates that more than 85% of all potentially usable business information originates in unstructured form - JerichoSam, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Every month or so it seems as though we hear about a company leaking personal information of its employees, retirees, or customers. This article makes the problem seem even worse than that. Even if unstructured data doesn't include such personal details, it could still be damaging.
- zadadka, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3In most corporate scenarios, the issue is only going to be solved by either :
1) the implementation of indexed, word-searchable databases containing record of documents, or
2) education of users, or
3) the application of more stringent access / security
In my experience, and in the environments I work, the issue originates from lack of policy to dictate where Users should store files (type, relevance, context etc etc) and, historically, many users have been told simply to save to shares & mapped drives, where few controls beyond group security exist, thus inevitably creating a "dumping ground".
Since Users (bless 'em) aren't good at changing habits aligned to an employers (latest) requirement, combined with inevitable time-wasting dilemmas over "should it go in This or That folder?", I suggest (1) will be the route most companies choose, and I'd even bet good money on this soon being a vertical market.
Even Vista & Server 2008 have excellent Indexing capabilities, so now we just need a product that can leverage those capabilities, collate results, and allow a "controller" to apply company-specific flags to the record, before they are consigned to a suitably restricted storage area.
If anyone knows of a current product that could achieve such things, I'd be genuinely interested in hearing of them and following up. - spywire, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0But it would be great if i have an option to turn OFF the recommendation engine.
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