Ohalo Blog

John Barnes
Aug 3, 2022 - #Data governance, #Big data, #Data mapping, #Data protection

Known Unknowns: Discover and Classify Unstructured Data at Scale

At Ohalo, it’s our mission to partner with businesses and enable them to discover, classify and redact unstructured, sensitive data at scale, quickly.
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Kyle DuPont
Jul 11, 2022 - #Data privacy, #Data governance, #Big data, #CCPA, #CPRA, #Data mapping, #Data protection

Optimize Unstructured Data for CPRA Compliance in Hours, Not Weeks or Months

It is probably not new news to you that a majority of California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) provisions will come into effect on January 1, 2023. This article discusses how to prepare
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Teeyah Seetharam
May 17, 2022 - #Data, #catalog, #Collibra, #Unstructured data

Ohalo, Collibra Join Forces for Unstructured Data Discovery and Cataloging

Ohalo, a software provider for enterprise-wide unstructured data discovery, classification and compliance management, strategically partners with Collibra, a Data Governance company.
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Teeyah Seetharam
Mar 30, 2022 - #Data, #Security, #Cybersecurity, #Unstructured data

A Panacea for Organizational Data Challenges

Data breach can cost you everything. In the US alone, 4.1 billion records were exposed due to data breaches in the first six months of 2019. Alarming!
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Rhys Jordan
Mar 19, 2022 - #Data, #Security, #Cybersecurity, #Unstructured data

Unstructured Data: What It Is and Why It’s So Important Today

When managing private and sensitive data, dealing with unstructured data can be challenging. For the most part, this is because of the sheer amount of it a company can generate. For one, we've mentioned that the average employee creates on average over 1,000 files during their tenure — and so companies handling 10,000 employees will have to handle tens of millions of files in as little as one year. When you add data privacy and security concerns, this task is made even harder. Conversations about unstructured data in the mainstream have only popped up in the past 2 or 3 years. Yet it has and will continue to be instrumental in your day-to-day operations, so it's crucial to know exactly what it is, where it is and why it's so important today.
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Kyle DuPont
Nov 17, 2021 - #Data, #Security, #Cybersecurity, #Data science, #ROT, #Unstructured data

Shining a Light on Dark Data

Around 80% of a company’s data is unstructured dark data. Although to date much focus has been on structured data because it is easier to get a grasp of, unstructured data proliferates with the daily activities of staff, from the important aspects of how deals get done to the more mundane scheduling of after work drinks.
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Kyle DuPont
Oct 14, 2021 - #Cloud, #Security, #Cybersecurity, #Migration, #Data privacy, #Legacy migration, #Unstructured data

4 simple steps to consider when moving unstructured data to the cloud

Many companies are looking to modernise and migrate their on-premise data to the Cloud. Often it’s shifting legacy applications, looking to take advantage of new database types and cloud-based data platforms, bolstering cybersecurity, and driving analytics and insights. With the average employee creating 1,000 files during their tenure at a company and little control over how that data is stored, unstructured data is hugely challenging to deal with during data migration projects to the Cloud.
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Kyle DuPont
Apr 7, 2021 - #Data privacy, #Construction, #CPRA, #GDPR, #Safety, #HSE, #OSHA, #Discovering safety