Author: DataOpsZone

Data compliance is a critical component of any company’s data management efforts, but it suffers from an image problem. Compliance is often seen as dull and boring, a long list of rules to check off simply to satisfy a control group. But data compliance is so much more than this. Done right, data compliance will both reduce risk in your business and potentially differentiate you from your competitors.

In this post, we’ll briefly review the core components of data compliance. Then, we’ll explore in more detail three standards you must be aware of.

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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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