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Within the present digital period, companies are gathering and holding huge volumes of information on their shoppers, workers and operations. Information breaches and cyberattacks are extra possible as knowledge quantity will increase. Company authorized departments should implement an environment friendly data governance process that includes knowledge mapping to scale back these dangers. Information mapping is the method of determining what data an organization gathers, the place it’s stored and the way it strikes throughout the corporate. Each firm’s authorized division ought to interact in it because it permits them to understand their knowledge panorama and put the required safety measures in place to safeguard delicate knowledge. This text examines the significance of information mapping for company authorized departments and the way it suits into a bigger technique.