As the title of a paper we published in 2021 states, â€œRansomware Relies on Poor Data Governance.â€ Organizations tend to grant excessive access to users, enabling them to pass along ransomware and other types of malware to areas of the network storing critical data. Data Access Governance lets you perform an analysis of access permissions and then remediate them using the principle of least privilege â€“ restricting access to minimum levels to perform job functions.