Unstructured data—everything from Office documents to chat logs, Gen AI outputs, and medical images—now accounts for roughly 80 – 90 % of enterprise information assets. Analysts expect the global datasphere to exceed 175 ZB by 2025, making visibility and governance at petabyte scale a board level mandate. Yet security tooling and processes are still optimized for structured databases, leaving emails, file shares, and collaboration platforms largely unmonitored. The result is a rising wave of compliance violations, insider abuse, ransomware, and AI driven data leakage.