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The document discusses data classification, which is the practice of organizing and categorizing data for improved understanding and efficient use. Surveys show that 55% of organizations have dark data, which is data collected and stored but not utilized. Data classification provides visibility into all data, including shadow and dark data, to identify, discover, and classify data at the element level.

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The document discusses data classification, which is the practice of organizing and categorizing data for improved understanding and efficient use. Surveys show that 55% of organizations have dark data, which is data collected and stored but not utilized. Data classification provides visibility into all data, including shadow and dark data, to identify, discover, and classify data at the element level.

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Data is one of the fastest-growing assets in the world.

It drives breakthroughs, informs decision-making,


enhances product experiences, and improves patient care.

But how can an organization make sense of the massive volume of data that is scattered across different
clouds and systems?

Just as a librarian must organize, categorize, and label all the books for readers to find what they need, a
company must also categorize data to drive value and manage data risk. Data classification gives data
users and data security, privacy, governance, and compliance teams the visibility they need to perform
their responsibilities.

This blog will dig deeper into data classification, why it matters, what challenges organizations face while
handling petabytes of data, and the best practices to classify data efficiently.

What is Data Classification?

At the very basic level, data classification can be defined as the practice of organizing and categorizing
data for its improved understanding and efficient use.

Surveys reveal that 55% of organizations report having dark data in their corporate environment. To the
uninitiated, dark data is something that’s routinely collected and stored by organizations globally, but it
is not utilized for any specific purpose and is left unattended. Gartner believes that businesses keep dark
data for compliance reasons, but retaining it increases costs, security, and compliance risks.

Data classification delivers a complete understanding of all the data across the organization, including
shadow and dark data. Shadow data is unknown to the team, like a server running a database. Dark
data, on the other hand, is the data that organizations know exists in their environment, but they don’t
have context around it, such as classification details. Hence, data classification effectively sifts through
data assets to identify and discover data, groups it by shared attributes, and classifies it at the data
element level.

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