7 Ways Good Data Security Practices Drive Data Governance

As more organizations continue with digital transformation plans, their ability to be good stewards of the data for which they are responsible becomes more difficult. They are generating more data, more data types, in more repositories, in more and different architectures. Every day, organization...

Three Keys to Securing Shadow Data

What is shadow data? Shadow data is any data contained anywhere in your entire data repository that is not visible to the tools you use to monitor and log data access. Shadow data may include: Customer data that DevOps teams copied into an unknown database to test applications they are developing...

“Don’t touch that server. Ralf set that up, and we don’t know what it does.”

Based on a true story… More than a couple of decades ago, I went to work for a network and web company as their customer marketing department. It was a crazy time. Online marketing was all about getting on DMOZ, Lycos was still a puppy, asking Jeeves felt like talking to an AI, and how you laid o...

What is Dark Data, and how can we find it?

What is “dark data”? The term “dark data” refers to “any information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities but generally fail to use for other purposes” Gartner. Often retained for compliance reasons, this data can also include past employee...

How Organizations Manage to Understand Millions of Unstructured Data Files at Scale

For an ever-growing segment of organizations, making sense of unstructured data is fast becoming imperative. It is also far more challenging. Unlike structured data that’s stored in rows and columns, text-based, and easy to search in relational databases and data warehouses, there is no defined...

The future of compliance and data governance is here: Introducing Microsoft Purview

The worldwide shift to a hybrid workplace has pushed us all to embrace ubiquitous connectivity. Those new connections have helped us become more collaborative; routinely editing and sharing documents in real-time from wherever we happen to be working. Instant messaging went from being a tool of...

The future of compliance and data governance is here: Introducing Microsoft Purview

The worldwide shift to a hybrid workplace has pushed us all to embrace ubiquitous connectivity. Those new connections have helped us become more collaborative; routinely editing and sharing documents in real-time from wherever we happen to be working. Instant messaging went from being a tool of...