Finding and cataloguing all potentially sensitive data inside an organisation's IT environment so that data can be protected is a major problem that can lead to data breaches. According to a 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, in 39 per cent of breaches the compromised system was unknown to the organisation and/or the organisation didn't realise what data they contained.
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