The Role of Data Hygiene in the Security of the Energy Industry

We create massive amounts of data daily, from the exercise stats compiled by our wearable devices to smart meters used at our homes to reduce expense consumption to maintenance statistics of critical systems in industrial settings. If data creation continues at its present rate, more than a yottabyte (a million trillion megabytes) will likely be generated annually by 2030. Even though big data is moving power behind modern, digital-first organizations, an average company uses only a fraction of the data they collect. According to a recent survey by VMware, 83% of business leaders believe that…