Today’s economy is more knowledge-based than ever before. Unfortunately, we’ve recently been reminded how dangerous that knowledge can be when used against us, making the protection of proprietary information a common goal for both public and private-sector organizations.
This goal is difficult given the way most companies manage information. Eighty percent of a company’s useful knowledge is unstructured, residing not in secure databases, but on desktops, filing cabinets, personal emails and internal reports, according to Gartner Group. This makes it very difficult to find, control or track intellectual property, let alone protect it.