Tools, Technologies, and Processes at the Intersection of Data Governance and Sensitive Data / Privacy / Monitoring issues.

You can't protect what you can't find.

So what's a Data Governance program to do if program leaders are tasked with ensuring the privacy of customer data? What if they're supposed to protect proprietary information from competitors or other prying eyes?

Maybe your organization is lucky. Maybe you have a finite information amount of sensitive information, and it's stored in clearly-marked repositories. Maybe all of your systems are well-documented, so your security teams have no problem locating sensitive data to which they will apply controls.

And maybe your security teams (and your privacy officers and compliance officers and quality teams and software development teams and data managers) are all on the same page about what to do to your data, and in what order. Maybe your organization is working like the proverbial well-oiled machine.

But maybe you've grown organically or through mergers and acquisitions, and maybe your systems and data aren't as well documented as well as they should be. Maybe protecting data and monitoring usage is going to be tough; these products can help make your life easier.

Gwen Thomas
President and founder, The Data Governance Institute
Publisher, The DGI Website and DataGovernanceSoftware.com