Cyber criminals have grabbed headlines for many highly publicized data breaches in recent years. Criminals harvesting personally identifiable information expend far less effort in companies where insufficient security controls expose mass amounts of data. The consequences of not deploying an effective sensitive data managing strategy can be quite severe and take many years to undo, as many breached organizations have learned the hard way. Excessive data is not only a recipe for a breach nightmare, but it takes up space on your network and makes the task of locating data more difficult. A third of consumers will stop doing business with organizations that are breached.”]

