SANS Institute Survey: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

SANS Institute Survey: Do You Know Where Your Data Is? (PDF, 0.62MB)Published: 26 Apr, 2024

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Greg Scheidel & Terry Allan Hicks

In this white paper, SANS Certified Instructor Greg Scheidel provides insights into the amount and makeup of data that exists on user endpoints versus central data stores, along with the rigor and effectiveness of policies that either restrict or support storing data on user endpoints.

Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

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Data can end up in the unlikeliest of places, even for those organizations that have developed formal data governance policies and implemented technical controls to (try to) keep data in central data stores. Especially troublesome is data stored and worked with on user endpoints—workstations, laptops, devices—such as original unstructured files or containing data extracted from structured data sources.

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Greg Scheidel

Principal Instructor

Greg Scheidel, SANS Instructor and Chief Cyber Security Officer at ECS, draws on three decades of IT and cyber leadership to show how hands-on defense and strategic decision-making unite to strengthen enterprise security.

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Terry Allan Hicks

Terry Allan Hicks is a longtime business and technology writer and corporate communications specialist. He was a senior writer with the IT research and advisory firm Gartner for more than 20 years.

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