Hanzo’s Jim Murphy explores the danger of Slack data; voluminous, informal, unstructured and context-dependent, it’s a threat hiding in plain sight at thousands of organizations, and often it’s only in the course of an investigation or e-discovery matter (when it’s too late) that a company recognizes the issue.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, you encounter one of these shocking — and shockingly common — images. At first, you only see the clear, peaceful ocean and the lone surfer calmly riding a wave… oblivious to the enormous shark tailing just behind. Then you realize that, but for the wave and the perfect timing of the photo, no one would have known the shark was there.

Unfortunately, there may be a shark lurking in the apparently tranquil waters of your organization. That shark is the data in Slack and other collaboration applications, and a compliance investigation or e-discovery matter is the wave that will reveal the previously unseen danger.

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https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/the-shark-in-the-wave-revealing-the-lurking-danger-of-slack-data/