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Been audited lately? Blame the IRS's massive, superfast data warehouse
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Opinion: E-mail archiving options
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BI Is the Business
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Your data's less safe today than two years ago
Over the past two years, 158 million data records have been exposed due to security breaches in the U.S. Part of the problem is that just finding where sensitive data sits within the organization and where it's most vulnerable, let alone securing it, is a daunting task.

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