Today, the majority of digitally stored information consists of unstructured data. This includes office documents, CAD/CAE files, PDFs, emails, images, videos, blogs, customer support chat logs, and social media. Unstructured data is typically more challenging to secure because it does not neatly fit into a database and contains sensitive information that is harder to identify and monitor. This presents challenges for organizations to leverage all their information. Ensuring the security of unstructured data requires specialized tools and strategies to detect, classify, and protect it from unauthorized access, loss, or breaches.
