One of the primary reasons for cloud migration is flexibility and lower capital costs. As a result, the cost value becomes evident when compared to on-premise or legacy IT infrastructure. Initially, you will see substantial cost benefits of using the cloud. However, after the early days of adoption have passed, you might notice that your…
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Why Data Minimization Matters Numerous businesses – maybe even yours – have spent the past decades believing the hype that “data = success” in the modern tech-driven economy. While it’s true that informed and judicious use of the right data at the right time can drive significant benefits to your business, not all data is…
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With the current data economy, organizations want to enable ubiquitous data for their workforce. Growing privacy regulations and increasing data security threats influence how you enable and govern your organization’s data. Figuring out the right data governance model is, therefore, something that organizations have to get right. At its simplest form, data governance aims to…
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Data governance has become essential to enable and protect data in today’s data-driven organizations. As three Vs of data – volume, variety, and velocity – continue to grow, data governance has become complex. Here are some of the factors that can help you launch and run a successful data governance program. Privacy, Security, and Compliance…
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With the current data economy, organizations want to enable ubiquitous data for their workforce. Growing privacy regulations and increasing data security threats influence how you enable and govern your organization’s data. Figuring out the right data governance model is, therefore, something that organizations have to get right. At its simplest form, data governance aims to…
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The traditional process-based approach will not scale and handle today’s volume and complexity. To handle privacy at scale, an organization must operationalize privacy. Operationalizing privacy is not an easy effort. DPOs (Data Protection Officers) and CDOs (Chief Data Officers) have to work in partnership to operationalize privacy. Before you start, how do you know your…
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This short self-driven assessment (~3 min) evaluates foundational blocks needed for data protection. The assessment classifies your organization’s data governance into the following categories. Not ready for privacy. Hard to identify privacy vulnerabilities and triaging incidents. Good start. Reactive to privacy issues and incidents. Privacy ready. Processes can help achieve privacy compliance but requires manual efforts in executing…
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Data protection requirements vary based on the nature of the data hence organizations must have a comprehensive and accurate data map of what data they collect, store, and process. Here is a quick list of attributes that companies should collect as part of their data discovery process. A data mapping process is typically long and…
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Big Data, no longer just a buzzword or a promise of exciting things to come, is something that many businesses leverage daily in this modern age. With the advent of the digital age, high volumes of data are generated daily from the internet, social networks, healthcare applications, sensors, and various other sources. Big Data refers…
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For the first decade of the 21st century, businesses and governments could believe that data was the new oil – that those companies and organizations with access to the most data and the best ways of making sense of it would inevitably rise to the top and succeed. In reality, it hasn’t worked out that way. As many organizations…
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