The Unstructured Data Crisis: Why Organizations Can’t See Their Biggest Security Risk

A Cloud Security Alliance and Thales discussion highlights a widening gap between organizations' confidence (75%) in unstructured data security and their actual visibility into where that data resides, who owns it, and how it flows. The report notes that many teams run multiple visibility tools without achieving comprehensive coverage, that AI and agentic systems are accelerating unstructured data growth and classification challenges, and that organizations are prioritizing data lifecycle management and automated AI-driven discovery/classification to close visibility gaps.