Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

Data classification and unstructured data

An essential aspect of why data classification is necessary is the amount of information generated within a company. The amount of information is often unmanageable and unusable. The management of unstructured data is still one of the larger unresolved issues of storage technologies. Still, about 80% of the stored data is probably unstructured, which is beyond the capabilities of an economical and sustainable information-management process. However, the critical challenge of process-aware allocation exists in both structured and unstructured data.

Furthermore, the current data volume does not indicate any externally visible information about the content and the intended use. If we use a classification ...