Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

THE CHALLENGE

Unstructured data in organizations is exploding and out of control. It encompasses all distinct files—documents, images, spreadsheets, videos and audio files—stored on servers, NAS devices and in semi-structured repositories like Sharepoint. Managing and protecting this data presents enormous challenges:

• Permissions: Determining who has access to a data set, which folders a user or group can access and identifying excess, unneeded permissions
• Access Auditing: IT can't answer questions like, "Who accessed or deleted my data?"
• Data Ownership: IT can't reliably identify business owners of data sets, and has even less ability to involve data owners in the governance process.
• Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are unreliable. Business users and data owners are unable to effectively make decisions about data access.
• High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. Data is open to global access groups with no reliable way of remediating access without impacting the business.