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The evolution of data management: Key trends for 2025 and beyond
As we head into a new year, organizations face increasing pressures to manage their data effectively and responsibly while delivering rapid innovation, in a technology landscape undergoing seismic change driven by AI and cloud computing. In 2025, we predict that several key trends will drastically influence the data management sector, driven by global legislation, security…
Introducing Enterprise Recon Cloud: Now on AWS Marketplace
Today marks the launch of our latest offering, Enterprise Recon Cloud, now available via AWS Marketplace. Enterprise Recon Cloud offers the award-winning data discovery and data management capabilities of Enterprise Recon, packaged for cloud-first organizations. It offers a new way for customers to leverage the power of Enterprise Recon without the need for additional hardware…
Mastering DORA: Ensuring operational resilience with data discovery
In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, ensuring operational resilience has become more critical than ever. The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a landmark regulation designed to bolster the stability and security of financial entities across Europe. The regulation, introduced in January 2023 and enforceable from January 2025, seeks to protect the financial sector…
The cybersecurity consultant's guide to data discovery
In the complex world of digital security, cybersecurity consultants are essential navigators, helping organizations navigate ever-evolving cyber-threats. Their expertise is crucial in a landscape where digital risks are an everyday reality, and effective defense strategies can make the difference between safety and data breach. Central to the consultant’s toolkit are data discovery tools. These tools…
Protecting electronic personal health information: The role of data discovery in modern healthcare
Healthcare providers are entrusted with the most intimate details of a person’s life, in the form of their medical records and electronic personal health information (ePHI). With this trust comes the immense responsibility of protecting that data from the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks, data breaches and ransomware. The sector is among the most targeted by…
The evolution of data discovery — from statistics to data security
In this article, we’ll explore the mainstream approaches organizations use to search for sensitive data across systems and networks. We’ll take a brief step back in time to understand the origins of data discovery that underpin the approaches and techniques used today. As well as explaining several of the real-world discovery methods businesses deploy, we’ll…
A closer look at script discovery using regex
The origins of regular expressions, or regex, can be traced back to the 1950s when they were formalized in mathematical notation for “regular events” by Stephen Cole Keene to describe the workings of the human nervous system. From 1968, regular expressions became widely used for pattern matching in text editors and for computer analysis, using…
How to achieve effective data discovery: The four essential elements
In this post we’ll explain the four essential elements of an effective data discovery program. The most effective data discovery programs are: Specific — targeting well-defined data types Comprehensive — cover a broad scope of systems and file types Evidence-based — use a sensitive data discovery tool capable of producing consistent, reliable results Repeatable —…
The dangers of dark data
Organizations process millions of bytes of data every day. Vast amounts of this data are collected and stored but aren’t used for any business purpose. This data is often retained in organizational systems where — because it isn’t used — it’s forgotten. In this post, we’ll explain why this so-called “dark data” can be a…
Introducing GLASS Studio
Getting started with custom data types just got easier with GLASS Studio™, an intuitive “no-code” interface enabling rapid development of custom data patterns.