Businesses and technology companies need to put infrastructure in place that doesn't just supply data, but can also attest to the security and "truthiness" of that data, if data is truly going to be the currency of the new millennium, leading cyber security experts have warned.

With so much data flowing freely across the internet, and with so many technologies evolving that can easily manipulate it, the time has come to think about the quality of the data, and how it is secured and managed, experts say.