How State & Local Governments Can Secure Unstructured Data

State and local governments and education produce large amounts of unstructured data in a wide range of data types. From student report cards that contain personally identifiable information (PII) to municipal tax rolls full of information that fraudsters want to steal, these organizations have a data protection challenge on their hands.

Keeping these diverse data sets safe and ensuring their high availability are essential for smooth educational and government operations. However, legacy solutions for backup and restoration are not well suited to these tasks, especially in their resource-constrained IT departments. They cannot keep up with the velocity of data creation and the volume of data they have to support.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify methods to protect, manage, and recover unstructured data
• Review steps to spot anomalies and detected encryption events
• Delineate the location of sensitive data sets and the means of reducing their exposure