74% of organizations lack a unified view of sensitive data and the identities that can access it.

70% of organizations have no unified strategy connecting identity and data visibility.

Overall visibility over where data is stored, processed and potentially accessible is 97% in Germany and 90% in both the Netherlands and Italy.

93% of UK organisations have complete or partial visibility over where their data is stored, processed and potentially accessible, including 48% with complete visibility and 45% with only partial visibility.

56% of organizations have only partial visibility into where their data is stored.

Only 34% of organizations know where all their data resides, whatever the level of criticality.

32% of leaders do not know the locations of all of their data centers, rising to 49% when including third-party providers.

44% of IT leaders reported that their data visibility has somewhat reduced, while 16% reported a significant reduction due to the growth of their IT environment.

88% of security professionals rated a metadata lake approach as “critical” or “very valuable” to solving their data visibility issues.

97% of CISOs rate metadata lake technology as either “critical” (36%) or “very valuable” (61%) for solving their data visibility and AI governance issues.