Security News > 2023 > April > Shadow data slipping past security teams

68% of data security professionals have identified shadow data as their top concern when it comes to protecting cloud data.

While security teams are confident that they have complete visibility into new public cloud data repositories, 93% are concerned about shadow data, up 11% from the year before, and 68% of respondents say it is the greatest challenge in protecting cloud data.

Shadow data can occur when copied data lives on in test environments, data gets mis-placed in storage buckets, legacy data isn't deleted after a cloud migration, data logs become toxic, and orphaned backups are left stale.

Data security posture management equips security teams with "Transformational" capabilities, according to Gartner.

DSPM "Provides visibility into where sensitive data is, who has access to that data, how it has been used and what the security posture of the data store or application is," states Gartner.

A cloud-native security platform should provide autonomous discovery and classification of all data across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake; inventory data into a single cloud data catalog; and prioritize alerts using an innovative risk-scoring model.

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