144 countries now have data privacy and protection rules by January 2025, and with the ongoing steps to regulate artificial intelligence, regulatory compliance became the top reason to change the end-life data management practices. It was cited globally by 38% of organizations. The stability operated by regulatory requirements came to each other at 34%.
In addition, the survey states, only 21% of the enterprise data is tagged and classified, making it difficult to explain how meaningless, obsolete or trivial it is, and thus cooked to remove. Many organizations maintain too much data, only 53% of the respondents said that they destroy the data once, it is not required for business purposes.
There is also good news. survey It was found that 58% of the surveyed enterprises have increased their investment in data confidentiality and security in the previous year, on average 46%, given that no investment trigger was: “For most, it is new rules, new techniques and increasing expectations around the responsible data and hardware disposal.”