Many of the recent data breaches were detected too late. Consider Equifax data
breach:
* "More than 145 million Americans were affected by the Equifax hack last
summer. The personal information accessed included
A common misconception is that IT teams can manually compile a list of sensitive
data locations. However, manual sensitive data discovery is impractical for the
following reasons:
* In traditional relational databases such as
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation] is a
regulation intended to strengthen data protection for all individuals within the
European Union. It becomes enforceable