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Raphael Reich looks at 5 sources of unstructured data at risk of being overlooked or underprotected

The 22nd annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) conference is meeting this week in Miami. While this is my first opportunity to participate in any FIRST activity, these conferences have obviously been ongoing since 1988. With a focus on detecting and responding to security incidents and the convention of moving to a different location each year — last year in Kyoto, next in Vienna — the conference in unsurprisingly international.

For many in IT, 2009 was a nuclear winter, with resources stripped away as companies struggled to survive. Yet many were tasked with using IT to increase the company’s efficiency, enter the few new growth markets, or fix a fundamental problem that threatened the company’s ability to stay in business.