Use Intelligent Data Management to Reduce the Growth of Dark Data across Your Attack Surfaces

Abstract:

In today’s digital landscape, data is stored across a variety of locations, storage types, vendor platforms and clouds, increasing the potential for cyber threats.  A major challenge in securing this data is the growth of dark data (unutilized, inaccessible, obsolete, duplicated data that no one will ever need or use)  which is left unmanaged become a major liability to one’s business.

This data infiltrates backups and snapshots, causing significant costs and delays in storing, protecting, and restoration and recovery during an event, ultimately slowing down the return to production.

One of the most effective strategies to enhance your cybersecurity posture is by reducing the amount of data created and removing existing dark data across your attack surfaces.

Participants will gain insights into the nature of dark data, learn how to recognize how it’s being created in their own environments and discovery tools to manage it effectively.

This session will explore how an Intelligent Data Management solution can provide data discovery, insights and advanced classification and search capabilities. IDM  helps slow unnecessary data creation,  fosters faster and smaller data set creation,  while eliminating unused data. By doing so it reduces the potential attack vectors available to cybercriminals and limits the amount of data that needs to be cleansed in the case of an attack.

Key Discussion Points:

• What is Dark Data?: We’ll define dark data, including examples of legacy files, unused data, and unnecessary duplicates that increase your security exposure.
• Reducing Attack Surfaces: How, Intelligent Data Management (IDM) strategies help minimize dark data, enabling faster data recovery and fewer attack vectors for cybercriminals.
• Data Discovery & Classification: Practical tools and techniques for discovering and classifying data to prevent the growth of dark data.
• Immutable Object Storage: Learn how immutable storage enhances data integrity and prevents malicious tampering.
• Cross-Platform Search & Control: How advanced search capabilities across platforms ensure controlled data creation and help mitigate the risks of unmanaged data.

Join us for this session to gain insights into how Intelligent Data Management can help you secure your organization’s data and reduce the growth of dark data, leading to a more resilient digital environment.