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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

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California Consumer Privacy Act: GDPR-like definition of personal information

Data Protection Report

This is the Data Protection Report’s third blog in a series of blogs that will break down the major elements of the CCPA which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on the CCPA’s broad definition of Personal Information.

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What is a Data Catalog?

erwin

The easiest way to understand a data catalog is to look at how libraries catalog books and manuals in a hierarchical structure, making it easy for anyone to find exactly what they need. Similarly, a data catalog enables businesses to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner.

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Using a Data Catalog to Crisis-Proof Your Business

erwin

One of the biggest lessons we’re learning from the global COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of data, specifically using a data catalog to comply, collaborate and innovate to crisis-proof our businesses. So one of the biggest lessons we’re learning from COVID-19 is the need for data collection, management and governance.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

erwin

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. Quite simply, metadata is data about data.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

In the 1950s we started to get early operating systems, and these included supervisory programs that helped manage the data coming in and going back out. But the interesting thing about that is that these column oriented data warehouse DBMS are extremely fast at searching. With simple, really fast SQL queries. Right, okay.