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Data governance has to do with people, processes, and technology. Those three elements have a big influence on the data you capture and the quality of that data. Data governance helps you define standards and processes so you can guarantee the highest data quality.
This post will explain the benefits of data governance and provide you with seven practices you should consider when implementing your data governance strategy.
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Data security is a leading concern for CEOs across all industries—and for good reason. Each day, businesses face a wide range of potentially game-ending cyber threats. Malware, phishing, DDoS attacks, and rogue employees are just a few of the dangers lurking in the waters of digital transformation.
Why exactly is data security such a concern?
It’s simple: Data breaches can be exorbitantly expensive. In fact, a recent study by IBM revealed that the average cost to US companies is $8.19 million. Healthcare breaches tend to be the most expensive to resolve, with the average cost hovering around $6.4 million.
What’s more, the same IBM study showed that loss of customer trust accounts for 36% of the damages that companies face. This goes to show that data breaches are not only extremely disruptive and costly to businesses in the short term, their effects will be felt for years down the road—and perhaps even indefinitely.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: What is the biggest threat to data security? Further, we will give you some tips on how to mitigate it.
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Big data is one of the top trending technologies today. I think it’s safe to assume that where there’s big data, there’s valuable information. And where there’s valuable information, there are security threats.
Obviously, we need to secure our data, and that’s what I’ll be talking about today. I’ll tell you what big data security is and talk about the challenges you’ll face with it.
The major topics I cover in this post are:
By the end of this post, you should have an understanding of what big data security is, why big data security is important, where you would face challenges while setting up security for big data systems, and the approaches you can utilize to provide big data security.
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