Encryption Vs. Tokenization: Eliminating The Duct Tape Approach To Data Security
Summary Encryption has become the duct tape of cybersecurity. Just like you use duct tape for anything around your home, encryption is for everything relating to technology and data security right now. Like duct tape, encryption works for some scenarios and uses, but it’s not a long-term solution, especially for organizations that want to extract […]
3 Data Team Time Sinks and How to Solve Them
Summary Unlocking value from data is a journey. It involves investing in data infrastructure, analysts, scientists, and processes for managing data consumption. Even when data operations teams progress along this journey, growing pains crop up as more users want more data. The problems can spike quickly or grow subtly over time. You don’t have to […]
ALTR launches policy automation engine for enterprises
Summary Often understaffed and overburdened, data and analytics engineering teams face massive backlogs from their business. On top of this, if asked to set up data access policies, manage ongoing updates to data permissions and handle data access requests, these professionals end up spending a large chunk of business hours on the task instead of […]
Every company can be a data company with low-code/no-code governance tools
Summary Data is driving an explosion in insights, innovation and cloud use, with cloud spending expected to surpass $1.3 trillion by 2025. Because cloud is now the default expectation of conducting business, the rules have changed — and businesses need to work with new regulatory hurdles and obstacles to innovate. Luckily, we know how to move forward quickly based on […]
Make the Journey to the Data Intelligence Promised Land, Securely
Summary To take your organizations to the next level, C-level executives are faced with the compelling need to make sense of your data, generate data intelligence, and create a higher-level understanding of your customers and your business. The only way to get there is to combine your distributed data sets into a consolidated, holistic view […]
Data Governance Without Security Leaves Sensitive Data Exposed
Summary “Data Governance” is such an interesting term. As data started becoming more critical to business in the last few years, this idea was introduced to define the business processes necessary to comply with regulatory requirements. But even more recently, heightened regulatory attention with GDPR and CCPA in 2018, persistent PII data breaches, and data centralization across enterprises have […]
15 Important Things Everyone Should Understand About Their Tech Colleagues’ Work
Summary Getting to know a little bit more about what the tech leader and team members do and how they think can help nontech members better communicate and work with them to build impactful tech solutions. Here, 15 members of Forbes Technology Council each share one thing they wish their nontech colleagues knew about their work and […]
How the Modern Data Ecosystem Broke Data Governance
Summary “Use data to make decisions? That’s crazy talk!” was a common thought in IT back in the 2000’s. Information Technology groups didn’t really understand the value of data – they treated it like money in the bank. They thought if they stored it in a database and kept it perfect that it would gain […]
15 Tech Leaders On The ‘Next Big Thing’ In Cybersecurity
Summary Knowing about the “next big thing” in cybersecurity—even if it’s only a potential threat—helps organizations prepare and protect their and their customers’ data. Full cybersecurity awareness must cover both offense and defense. It’s essential for stakeholders to have an understanding of both new and emerging threats and the latest developments in defensive tools and […]
Data Privacy Day 2022: Views and Tips from Top Industry Experts
Summary Data Privacy Day, an international “holiday” that occurs each year on January 28, was created to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) assumed leadership of Data Privacy Day from the Privacy Projects back in August of 2011. A nonprofit, public-private partnership dedicated to promoting […]