Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world: LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since at least 2016, leveraging custom tools and an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

That’s because it’s the best way to visualize metadata , and metadata is now the heart of enterprise data management and data governance/ intelligence efforts. Data modeling provides visibility, management and full version control over the lifecycle for data design, definition and deployment.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This metadata is ingested into the data catalog, definitions are added within a business glossary, and the searchable repository enables users to understand how data is used and stored. Expanded AI capabilities to enrich metadata scanning and speed the handling of sensitive data for automated GDPR and CCPA compliance programs.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the essence of success in data governance is people and not technology, having the right tools at your fingertips is crucial. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool. Next to data governance, data architecture is really embedded in our DNA.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Through Metadata Values. For example, contracts, invoices, personnel records might all fit this definition. Some solutions make it easier to manage these by allowing for the definition of a “content type” or “record class” which might include associating certain metadata fields or values, business rules, and blank templates.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As enterprise architectures become more complex, enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. White Paper – Data-Driven Business Transformation: Using data as a strategic asset and transformational tool to succeed in the digital age. Related blog: The Key to Improving Business and IT Alignment.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As enterprise architectures become more complex, enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. Data-Driven Business Transformation: Using data as a transformational tool to succeed in the digital age. IT has graduated from a support department to a proactive, value-driving function.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This will definitely impact the timeline required to do the migration, as well as what happens to the source system and the data it contains. Identify Existing Metadata in the Source System and Metadata Needs for the New System: Folders may be serving as metadata in some systems. Who Needs to be Involved?

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erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects. A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways.

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Metadata Government GDPR Risk 90

Collibra

MARCH 9, 2022

Our new Collibra Everywhere browser extension, which is currently in beta, conveniently surfaces context about data from within popular enterprise web apps and BI tools, helping employees quickly understand the content they are consuming. . Easy-to-use interface to add business context to metadata. Expanded Tableau integration.

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Collibra

JANUARY 13, 2020

Due to the rapid growth and diversity of data sources, a growing number of organizations are turning to data catalogs as their primary tool for data management. However, not all data catalogs fit into a company’s broader metadata strategy. A Modern Data Catalog. The four tasks are: . Understand, enrich and trust .

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Collibra

MARCH 3, 2021

Those definitions form part of a business ontology – helping organizations understand how different terms relate to one another. . This definition is specific enough to capture the relationship between entities, but also sufficiently open to accommodate potential differences in interpretation. Enforce the use of data standards.

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erwin

APRIL 15, 2020

Better data makes the body stronger and provides a foundation for the use of analytics and data science tools to reduce errors in decision-making. Does the definition (description, classification, allowable range of values, etc.) of incoming, individual data elements match our internal definitions of those data elements?

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erwin

JANUARY 7, 2021

As businesses migrate from legacy systems to the cloud, data governance and data intelligence will become increasingly relevant to the C-suite and tools to automate and expedite the process will take center stage. However, that definition is too narrow in terms of AI’s relation to data governance.

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The Texas Record

JULY 17, 2018

To mitigate this risk, many organizations are using add on tools to conventional records management systems to improve some recordkeeping functionality. In addition, organizations are exploring tools to classify their records automatically, i.e. auto classification. Definition of Auto Classification. Request Based. Conclusion.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

To ensure the data pipeline goes undisrupted, BQ helps maintain metadata tables for job failures, parsing errors, and data sources. Two Sigma utilizes two open-source software tools to assist in log management between the organization’s on-premises network, GCP account, and BitQuery space. Streaming Log Ingestion.

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Cloud Metadata Security Access 138

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Sonar discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical vulnerability in Packagist, a central component of the PHP supply chain, to help secure developer tools.” The issue was addressed within hours by the maintainers of the impacted repository. . ” reads the post published by SonarSource. ” continues SonarSource.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Others may deliver the ability to manage critical data elements, metadata, and data quality testing. . CCAR MRA reporting: An efficient platform delivers the Fed’s FR Y 14 M/Q/A and FR Y 9C schedule and data points definitions. How are roles and responsibilities and the operating model combined with data management tools?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 4, 2023

These processes typically involve using specialized software tools and best practices to manage the entire lifecycle of an organization’s IT assets. See the Top IT Asset Management (ITAM) Tools for Security Why is ITAM Important? See the Best Network Monitoring Tools 6. Here’s more on ITAM’s benefits.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Thankfully, tools are available to help automate the scanning, detection and tagging of sensitive data by: Monitoring and controlling sensitive data : Better visibility and control across the enterprise to identify data security threats and reduce associated risks.

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Collibra

JUNE 13, 2023

By leveraging metadata (data that describes other data), data catalogs enable the discovery, description, and organization of data sets. Slow: Often, legacy data catalogs aren’t integrated with other data management tools, which can make it difficult to use them to automate data workflows and, ultimately, slow critical decision-making.

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Collibra

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In other cases, normalization tools and techniques can resolve the data inconsistencies to improve the quality of data. . Develop an organization-wide shared definition of data quality, identify your specific quality metrics, ensure continuous measurement on the defined metrics, and plan for error resolutions.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 31, 2022

As such, using these three points of metadata can be incredibly helpful for security teams to quickly reduce the most risk in their environment, resulting in better outcomes compared to top-down patching. Read next: Best Vulnerability Scanner Tools. ” ‘Discovered-in-the-Wild’ Discrepancy Noted. .”

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Data Matters

MARCH 10, 2021

Metadata : Not only the content of a communication but also the communication metadata (e.g., Metadata was also covered in the ePrivacy Directive (albeit “metadata” was referred to as “traffic data” in the Directive), but the current Council Draft broadens the options for electronic communications providers to process metadata.

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AIIM

JANUARY 15, 2019

Of course, we've been digitizing content and delivering electronically -- and wrestling with metadata, search, information governance, and compliance -- for decades. Question answering - providing definitions, facts, computed results, and visualizations that respond to the questioner's intent.

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erwin

MAY 2, 2022

One must also capture the vast quantity of metadata around the OLTP business requirements that must be reflected. Now that we have identified some entities, we need to use a data modeling tool like erwin® Data Modeler by Quest® to record this information as shown in Figure 4 below. Figure 3: Example sentence diagram.

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Everteam

JANUARY 9, 2019

Everteam.policy is a tool that allows you to capture, document and maintain retention and governance policies for your entire organization. With it, you can: Create comprehensive policy definitions. It includes an import tool that enables you to import your spreadsheet and adjust as necessary so you don’t have to start from scratch.

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Collibra

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Depending on who you ask and under what jurisdiction, say under the GDPR for a multinational company, that definition may be interpreted as a set of obligations regarding how personal data is collected, processed and shared. Extra steps to upload data from data sources to third-party mapping tools just to gain visibility of data usage.

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Collibra

MARCH 18, 2021

Incomplete, incorrect, duplicated, or redundant data is commonplace in business, resulting from human errors, siloed tools, multiple handovers and inadequate data strategy. Data consumers have a much broader definition of data quality than technical professionals may realize. Why is data quality important?

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Collibra

JULY 13, 2021

In other cases, normalization tools and techniques can resolve the data inconsistencies to improve the quality of data. . Develop an organization-wide shared definition of data quality, identify your specific quality metrics, ensure continuous measurement on the defined metrics, and plan for error resolutions.

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Analytics Customer Experience Metadata Communications 59

The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

It is a useful tool that helps us consider how records might need to be managed differently, depending on their current purpose and function. After a document is captured, employees collaborate by adding data, editing information, approving or denying requests, adding metadata, etc. In a nutshell, this is information governance.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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. These bottlenecks are only made worse when organizations attempt to get by with systems and tools that are not purpose-built.

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Preservica

APRIL 26, 2018

Beth comments, “Preservica, and in particular Universal Access, is a tool for us to encourage and educate our Records Officers to save important records. With the previous DSpace tool, it sometimes took years for records to go into the Archives. The ability to work with and enrich our descriptive metadata overtime is wonderful.”.

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Archive-It

APRIL 1, 2021

Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? WARCs contain technical and provenance metadata about the collection and arrangement of their media so sites can be read and represented in live web browsing experiences like they were at the time of their collection. by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Like most software tools, backups work best when configured to meet the network’s needs, and controls and log activity are visible to administrators. Implementing the Optimal Backup Strategy.

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Collibra

APRIL 22, 2020

This is not about nationalities, or programming tools or even different data sources. Business users can find what they want instinctively and intuitively, without having to master tables, fields, column names and metadata — in effect, without having to become data scientists themselves. What is Data Governance ?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s where VLAN tagging — the practice of adding metadata labels, known as VLAN IDs, to information packets on the network — can help. As new users and devices attempt to log into the network, an authentication server and/or other authentication tools will first be used to determine if that new host is valid.

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