Sharing information about what’s happening with the unstructured data in your organization is much more difficult than it might appear. Miscommunication can negatively impact virtually every aspect of your organization, from your IT, storage teams, and app developers – all the way to the business and other end users. However, it is critical to have […]
Maximizing Your Enterprise Data Security: The Ultimate Guide to Secure Data Transfer
Running a modern business is only possible with frequent file transfers. Expanding one’s presence in the digital space and changing working habits make the practice even more widespread. While efficient, data transfer can pose risks to security and credibility. Being up to speed on current best practices is critical to a company’s continued data integrity and reputation. […]
“Shift Left” Isn’t What You Expected
Let’s address the elephant in the room – “shift left” hasn’t had the impact on our software security as many of us expected it to have. While it does have much merit and has influenced security in an indispensable way, I argue that “shift left” should be viewed as a tactic in a larger management […]
Leveraging Data Governance to Manage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Data Risk
This is part 2 of a two-part article. Find part 1 here. In this section, we discuss how to leverage Data Governance to manage DEI data risk. In part 1 of this article, we identified several best practices for data that chief diversity officers can leverage to support data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As […]
Is Shadow SaaS a Security Risk?
After years spent purchasing and expanding SaaS usage to meet the challenges created by the pandemic, IT teams are now tightening SaaS spend and see growing security risks from shadow SaaS. SaaS is particularly painful for IT to manage. Ownership of these applications is decentralized across the organization and official procurement processes are often skipped, […]
How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value
The last few years have demonstrated how critical it is for businesses to maintain agility and make fast, confident decisions to stay ahead. The resulting economic uncertainty and growth of industry-wide trends, including ESG, cloud migration, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning programs – such as OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4 model and […]
How Zero Trust Can Help Prevent Data Breaches
Data breaches occur when sensitive information, such as financial data, personal identities, or confidential business information, is accessed and potentially disclosed to unauthorized parties. This can happen due to various reasons such as hacking, malware, human error, or weak security measures. The consequences of a data breach can be significant and far-reaching, including: Common Types […]
Is Data the Achilles Heel of AI?
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Add this 21st-century irrefutable fact: The world can’t live without data. With its numbers, characters, facts, and statistics – the operations performed, stored, and analyzed – data has become an irreplaceable facet of daily life. We use data to identify strengths and weaknesses. It helps […]
How Intelligent Enterprise Software Is Transforming Business Processes
Between OpenAI’s research release of its language model ChatGPT and Microsoft’s inclusion of an embedded (and still improving) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in its Bing search engine, it’s impossible to escape news about the rise of AI. Of course, these new AI tools are simply the most recent customer-facing applications after decades of development across various computing […]
Data Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Testing
Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […]