{"id":2976,"date":"2022-10-18T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nebrcentre.co.uk\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:08:38","slug":"the-dangers-of-storing-dark-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/the-dangers-of-storing-dark-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Storing Dark Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfinsolutions.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2022-10\/DealMaker_Meter_Security_Report.pdf\">latest insights released<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;leading risk and compliance company,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN),&nbsp;96 percent of&nbsp;senior&nbsp;executives&nbsp;are concerned about data fraud,&nbsp;with&nbsp;95 percent worried that data breach incidents will increase over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data breaches are a growing concern for businesses, and this includes the storage of dark data.&nbsp;Dark data is&nbsp;defined as data that a business has collected but&nbsp;no longer needs \u2013 this can include&nbsp;customer information and old employee details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As much of this data is stored over time,&nbsp;businesses can often forget about it,&nbsp;often&nbsp;leaving such information susceptible to breaches.&nbsp;Dark&nbsp;data&nbsp;is&nbsp;often not subject to the&nbsp;same protections compared to active&nbsp;information, meaning that cyber criminals&nbsp;can easily&nbsp;gain access to such systems and steal it for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only&nbsp;do&nbsp;such attacks endanger&nbsp;businesses, but also current and previous employees, and past clients, whose information may still be stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key takeaway for IT departments is that there should be more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/services\/\">internal regulation<\/a>&nbsp;on how data is&nbsp;attained, managed, and stored, and what happens when such data is no longer required \u2013 all of which should abide by GDPR laws where&nbsp;appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like further guidance on storing data safely, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:enquiries@nebrcentre.co.uk\">enquiries@nebrcentre.co.uk<\/a> or sign up to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/core-membership-sign-up\/\">free core membership\u00a0<\/a>to keep up to date with the latest cyber security matters and keep your business safe online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NEBRC is a non-profit organisation that aims to educate, inform, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/support\/\">support<\/a>&nbsp;businesses in the UK by staying protected against cyber threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the&nbsp;latest insights released&nbsp;by&nbsp;leading risk and compliance company, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN),&nbsp;96 percent of&nbsp;senior&nbsp;executives&nbsp;are concerned about data fraud,&nbsp;with&nbsp;95 percent worried that data breach incidents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}