India firms need to learn how to dispose key data: Deloitte-Blancco report

New Delhi: As enterprises struggle to understand the importance of data lifecyle where destructing the data is equally important to archiving or retaining it in the systems of on the Cloud, only 43 per cent organisations in India are fully aware of current and upcoming data protection laws, a new report said on Thursday,

While the B2B firms are more prepared than B2C, 80 per cent of organisations have a defined data retention policy, according to a joint report by Deloitte and Blancco, that provides data erasure and mobile device diagnostics software.

According to the report, organisations in India need to ensure that data is irrecoverable upon destruction so that it doesn’t become a liability.