Research Brief: How Commercial Discovery and Classification Tools Can Ease Data Resilience Skill Shortage Impacts
Research Brief

Nov 14, 2024
by Jon Brown, Torsten Volk, Emily Marsh, Christian Perry, Enterprise Strategy Group Research
While even the best-resourced IT organization can perpetually feel like they need more help on hand to contend with the intense cybersecurity threat landscape, some organizations are solving the situation by deploying third-party tools to supersede internally developed tools. Internal resource constraints are forcing firms to find novel ways of stretching thin pools of expertise and resources to achieve an acceptable cybersecurity posture. When it comes to the critical task of ensuring resilience from attacks or even accidental corruption for precious data assets, recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that organizations lacking skill sets are more likely to deploy commercial tools for data discovery and classification rather than develop and maintain internally developed tools.
 

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