The problem is that when end-users are using whatever solutions they choose without IT approval, the risk of leakage of important information and the opportunity for other security and compliance failures goes way up.

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Thames, the biggest water company, has said it will be unable to reduce leakage at all over the next five years without a price rise.

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With online data leakage occurring in new and surprising ways these days, why take the chance of sharing databases without providing additional back-end controls?

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