By Sara Peters/ Posted on 10/23/2014
You're already worried about "shadow IT" -- the applications, mobile devices, and cloud services your users are using without your OK -- but what about "shadow data"? Even if your users are only using the file-sharing technology you gave them, you're not necessarily protected from over-sharers -- the people who share data (even sensitive data) with the entire organization, external parties, or the general public.
Twenty percent of such "broadly shared files" contain regulated data, according to research released today by Elastica. Of that data, 56% was personally identifiable information, 29% was personal health information, and 15% was PCI-protected credit card data.
That all adds up. On average, each user has over 2,000 files stored on the cloud, and 185 of those (about 9%) are "broadly shared," according to the research. Yet averages, in this case, are misleading -- which is good news.
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