Every file you share, post, and publish carries a second, invisible layer of information that you may overlook. When you hit send on a file or post a file to your organization's SharePoint or CMS, metadata travels with it, including who made it, when, with what software and sometimes a geographic location. But some sensitive information can leak if you don't understand how applications capture metadata.

Mark Gross, President, Data Conversion Laboratory, appearing in Manufacturing Business Technology Manufacturing today is a complicated...