Increasingly, the ability to effectively secure corporate and customer information and assets is a conversation that has moved from technologists up to C-level executives and the board. At the same time, approaches to corporate security are quickly evolving beyond the traditional infrastructure-based approach.

When I talk to CIOs and CISOs about security, they share a common concern: they don’t know what they don’t know. The most recent study we conducted with Ponemon confirms that protecting data remains a mystery to many executives. The most revealing fact from the study is that among thousands of organizations around the world, an overwhelming majority don’t have any sense of their data risk. For customers who are experiencing increased pressure about their potential data vulnerabilities, I recommend first getting a sense of their data footprint.

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