The Unstructured Data Crisis: Why Organizations Can’t See Their Biggest Security Risk
75% of organizations say they are confident their unstructured data is secure. But a new joint survey from the Cloud Security Alliance and Thales reveals a very different reality.
In this episode of Techstrong TV, Alan Shimel sits down with Hilary Barron, AVP of Research at CSA, and Todd Moore, VP of Data Security Products at Thales, to unpack the findings. Nearly a third of organizations say unstructured data drives over half their data growth, only a third know where their data actually lives, and most are running eight to nine different visibility tools that still fail to deliver the full picture.
With AI and agentic systems generating new unstructured data across on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments at an unprecedented rate, the problem is accelerating faster than most teams can respond. Hilary and Todd discuss why visibility is the foundational challenge, why organizations are prioritizing data lifecycle management over lineage and ownership, and why AI is both accelerating the problem and offering the best path forward.
