Corporate data, specifically the unstructured data users store in files, such as documents, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, is also a big challenge. Conservative estimates show that over 80% of a corporation’s data is now unstructured and stored outside a traditional database or application environment.

In most organisations, access to this data is ungoverned, and outside the purview of IT. A comprehensive identity governance solution must extend to data in file storage systems and control access to 100% of corporate data regardless of where it resides.