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Sure, your employees understand the importance of your Data Governance Policy, everyone is on-board. How do you know? Do you conduct reviews? What do you review and how often? It’s not just enough to say that you have a policy in place. There has to be some way to...

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As you maintain compliance, increase security and enact your data governance policies, there is one area that is of utmost importance. Who is minding the store? We hear more and more about data breaches, mostly from outside forces, but what are they utilizing to get as much information as...

There are lots of discussion around big data, IoT’s, CDO’s, data scientists, BI, etc. The list is long of what is now more and more a part of mainstream business discussions. Not just technology people talking about what to do with all the information that is available. So, with...

As the world of data grows, so does the world of stakeholders. It not just the IT department that is concerned with back-ups, storage, security and management of data. Now it’s important for everyone to know what you have, who has access and who is utilizing the data. The...

You have a lot of information – we’ve gone over that. You have a strong Data Governance Policy, so you know what you have, who owns the data, how it’s being used, who’s accessing it and whether it’s stale or active. But how do you make that data work?...

You back-up, you archive, you save – everything. But what do you have? Do your employees save items to their system that you might not want to have to back-up? Is it possible that they keep their music files saved somewhere on your system, their photos or a myriad...

Data comes in all types. Part of a good Data Governance Policy is data classification. Do you use one? It doesn’t have to be too onerous. It can be as simple as identifying information into just a few classifications. You may need to start simple and adjust as you...

You know it happens, we know it happens – open permissions. For whatever reason, someone gives access to documents to everyone. Sure, it was only going to be temporary, then the coffee spilled, then a call came in, then…and now it is 6 months later and everyone can see...