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Data Intelligence and Its Role in Combating Covid-19

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Privately it will come from hospitals, labs, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and private health insurers. These numerous data types and data sources most definitely weren’t designed to work together. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Data cataloging to capture object metadata for identified data assets.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

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Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. It is metadata that turns information into an asset.”.

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Data Modeling 101: OLTP data modeling, design, and normalization for the cloud

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One must also capture the vast quantity of metadata around the OLTP business requirements that must be reflected. While talking to the business people about the business requirements, entities tend to be the plural nouns that they mention: insureds, beneficiaries, policies, terms, etc. What is an entity? Aren’t they just both people?

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What is IT Asset Management (ITAM)? Definition, Benefits & Types

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A few of the tasks involved in digital asset management are digital asset inventory management, metadata management, and content distribution to ensure efficient and effective use of digital assets. Asset insurance: Insuring critical assets against loss or damage can give you added protection against financial risks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

Most of the leaked data is company information and emails, but includes employee names, phone numbers, employment contract numbers and emails, as well as email attachments, metadata and other sensitive information that could be exploited in supply chain attacks. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Four Use Cases Proving the Benefits of Metadata-Driven Automation

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Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. Metadata-Driven Automation in the BFSI Industry. The banking, financial services and insurance industry typically deals with higher data velocity and tighter regulations than most.

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Preparing for Ransomware: Are Backups Enough?

eSecurity Planet

For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Prioritize the protection of backup catalogs, which contain all the metadata for backups (index, bar codes of tapes, full paths to data content on disk).