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Peter Tyrrell for SC Magazine In an age of rampant malware attacks, in an era when companies may soon be liable for ignoring their cyber risk, at a time when firms are talking about insider attacks, data breaches and cyber crime every day…most IT security departments are still flying blind.

They have little or no data visibility or risk context. So they don't know what sensitive data exists or where it is located, what user is taking what action, where data is going or what controls they need to mitigate that risk. That is a lot of unknowns – and this is in companies that have data protection programs. In spite of the myriad solutions available to help enterprises protect their most valued data, most firms never face the most basic reality of data protection: If you can't see it, you can't protect it.

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Thomas Fischer, threat researcher and security advocate at Digital Guardian, comments on supply chain security.