Search is at an interesting crossroads. As the keystone of the information age, this truly transformative technology now blends into almost every digital nook and cranny without fanfare. It goes without saying that smartphone apps, web pages, social networking tools, productivity software and operating systems have started off with simply having a search box embedded somewhere.

Nuix, a technology company that enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data, has published a survey of corporate information security practitioners, conducted by Ari Kaplan Advisors, which shows fundamental changes occurring in the way enterprises protect their data.