Security News > 2020 > May > Big data: It's important to know where it is, how secure it is, and who is using it
In order to keep company data safe and use it to its full potential, follow these tips on tracking and monitoring data access and usage.
Many enterprises don't know how employees are using their data, and they deal with incidents of employee insider data hacks that can be as threatening as data compromises that come from the outside, according to Virtru, a data encryption company.
The data tracker tells you the location of the data download, who the user was, whether the data extraction conformed to a data usage pattern expected for that user, and where the extraction was performed.
"We are concerned about the lineage of the data and how the data is being used so that software developers can leverage this data for other data opportunities."
For data managers, whether management is in big data or more traditional structured data, data management can be taken to a new level.