Survey: 83 Percent of U.S. Organizations Have Accidentally Exposed Sensitive Data

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An overwhelming number of security professionals believe that employees have put customer PII and business sensitive information at risk (83 percent). “The explosive growth of unstructured data in email, messaging apps and collaboration platforms has made it easier than ever for employees to share data beyond traditional security protections – combine this with the growing cultural need to share everything immediately, and organizations are facing the perfect storm for an accidental breach,” said Egress Chief Revenue Officer and NA General Manager Mark Bower. The Egress data privacy survey was conducted by Opinion Matters research group among 1,000 U.S.-based senior and mid-level security professionals at organizations of 500 employees or more. Egress helps enterprises protect unstructured data to meet compliance requirements and drive business productivity. Trusted by over 2,000 enterprise organizations and governments around the globe, Egress offers a seamless user experience, powerful real-time auditing and patented information rights management, all accessible via a single global identity.

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