Companies are drowning in data. This is a swelling trend that businesses have no choice but to act on, and security teams are likely to feel the greatest consequences moving forward. There are myriad shiny solutions and schools of thought that seek to make sense of the data influx, but leaders must first ensure the “why” of their data is properly understood. In other words, unless teams across an organization have a clear roadmap from data ingestion to data application, data security problems are guaranteed to follow.
