The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is the most stringent and complex privacy mandate in the world to date. Severe penalties will ensue if companies are found to be in major violation of the law. The greatest challenge exists in gaining control over unstructured data that has no internal compliance measures or management function.

While 58% of U.S. and 62% of German respondents to a recent survey believe their companies will be fined due to issues with non-compliance, 87% of CIOs believe their current policies leave them at risk of being exposed under GDPR.

Not surprisingly, 80% of all business-related data is considered unstructured making it increasingly more difficult for companies, especially larger ones, to ensure compliance of data sources, endpoints, emails, servers, and users, and meet the deadline for compliance.