{"id":57710,"date":"2024-11-20T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/data-is-the-new-uranium-incredibly-powerful-and-amazingly-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:13:06","slug":"data-is-the-new-uranium-incredibly-powerful-and-amazingly-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/data-is-the-new-uranium-incredibly-powerful-and-amazingly-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Data is the new uranium \u2013 incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Column<\/span> I recently got to play a ‘fly on the wall’ at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls and always-too-gullible users, I began to hear a new note: data has become a problem.<\/p>\n

A generation ago we had hardly any data at all. In 2003 I took a tour of a new all-digital ‘library’ \u2013 the Australian Centre for the Moving Image<\/a> (ACMI) \u2013 and marveled at its single petabyte of online storage. I’d never seen so much, and it pointed toward a future where we would all have all the storage capacity we ever needed.<\/p>\n

That day arrived not many years later when Amazon’s S3 quickly made scale a non-issue. Today, plenty of enterprises manage multiple petabytes of storage and we think nothing about moving a terabyte across the network or generating a few gigabytes of new media during a working day. Data is so common it has become nearly invisible.<\/p>\n