We’ve entered the age of access governance. Organizations need to know who has access to what data and how they were granted that access. Identity and Access Governance (IAG) solutions address these issues while managing enterprise access. They provide visibility into access, policy and role management, and risk assessment—and they facilitate periodic entitlement reviews of access across numerous systems. Most enterprise IAG solutions are missing a key piece to the puzzle, though: unstructured data.

Over the past five years, research has concluded that nearly 80 percent of enterprise content is unstructured. That means data doesn’t exist in a managed format where access is granted via a formal application or process. While that percentage is holding steady, the actual amount of unstructured data is growing consistently. Many organizations estimate an annual data growth rate of 30 percent to 40 percent across their file systems. Continue here the Identity and Access Management: Filling the Gap in Identity and Access Governance