With information flowing more freely than ever before in today’s digital economy, tracking sensitive data has become increasingly difficult. In fact, findings show more than half of IT professionals admit they do not have a complete picture of where their sensitive data lives.
As organizations adopt cloud services, putting more and more of their data in the hands of outside, third-party cloud service providers, the challenges associated with maintaining visibility and control over their sensitive and regulated data is only going to expand exponentially. Within outsourced environments, such as SaaS cloud applications, organizations have little to no control over how their information is stored or moved within the cloud provider’s data centers or how it flows to the systems of the cloud provider’s partners.