Month: December 2019

Have you ever wondered how you could reduce security threats and risks against your data assets? Or even better, how you could eliminate threats to your organization’s data entirely? If so, this article about how to mitigate security threats to data assets is for you.

We’ll discuss some of the main challenges organizations have when they try to mitigate or eliminate data security threats. Then, we’ll move on to risk assessment as the first piece of the threat mitigation puzzle. We’ll discuss how to eliminate risks and threats and how to mitigate them using security controls. We’ll also answer the question of how effective security controls are. Lots to talk about—let’s get started!

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The word “governance” sounds scary. It evokes excessive formality, slow decisions, and top-down directives. And while bad governance is all those things (and more), good governance is a differentiator. All organizations today collect, generate, and process lots of data. Data governance is the union of people, processes, policies, and technology to oversee data for a company.

Sometimes, you practice data governance because you’re subject to some standard or regulation that mandates certain parts of it. In this case, data governance is a minimum necessity to meet the standard and no more. While staying clear of legal or regulatory trouble is definitely smart business, I’m going to show you the broader benefits of data governance for your company. In this post, we’ll explore the three major benefits for your firm through improved data governance:

• Lower technology and compliance risk
• Smoother technology implementations
• Higher return on investment through standardization

Let’s start by reviewing the fundamentals of data governance.

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Your company’s data is valuable. That’s true both for data your company generates and data your customers generate. Within your company, it’s critical to make sure that data is accessible and easily utilized. When critical members of your organization have access to powerful data, they’re able to not only work hard but also smarter, as well. The decisions that they make are better-informed. This is good news for your customers, your employees, and your shareholders.

I’ll say it again: your company’s data is valuable. Outside of your company, it’s critical to make sure that data is inaccessible. When malicious people outside your organization have access to powerful data, they’re able to cause great harm. Thieves steal that data, package it, and sell it to the highest bidder. That data, which was so powerful in the hands of the right people, is damaging in the hands of the wrong ones.

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