Network security uses physical and software security solutions to protect network infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, failure, alteration, disruption, or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data. Network security involves implementing security policies, procedures, and tools to prevent unauthorized persons and programs from accessing a network, connected devices, and network traffic. Network security applies to both public […]
What Is Data Profiling?
Data profiling is the process of analyzing data to get a basic understanding of what it contains. It examines the data in tables or columns to determine values, patterns, and anomalies distribution. It’s essential to Data Quality Management because it helps business users understand their data and decide whether it meets their needs. You can perform […]
Delay Is Deadly: Achieving Real-Time Analytics in the Age of Hyper-Competition
Today’s business landscape is more unpredictable than ever for IT leadership. Between the adoption of more sophisticated technologies and an ever-growing list of digital transformation initiatives, IT operations have become frustratingly complex. This is especially true when it comes to managing data flows and ensuring the precision of analytics insights. At a time when analytics […]
What Is Data Integrity?
Data integrity is the totality of a dataset’s validity and consistency over its entire life cycle. In other words, it refers to the correctness and trustworthiness of data. It can be applied to any dataset, from personal information to business records. Data is valid if it contains only correct (accurate) information and can be trusted (reliable). […]
Data Lineage Demystified
Trusting big data requires understanding its data lineage. Without data lineage, big data becomes synonymous with the last phrase in a game of telephone. The original data from the first person (e.g., “a guppy swims in a shark tank”) changes to something completely different when it ends with the last person (e.g., “The puppy that […]
The AI Bill of Rights Is a Great Step – But More Is Needed
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House has issued the blueprint of the AI Bill of Rights. This document describes the rights that should be protected when implementing automated systems using AI technology. The paper lists the following five principles that define these rights: 1. The right to be protected against unsafe […]
How Encryption Works to Preserve Data Privacy
Cryptography and privacy go hand in hand: Leveraging cryptography to encrypt data for the purposes of preserving privacy isn’t a new concept. In fact, data encryption itself is quite easy. The far greater challenge is data decryption – or, put another way, making sure that encryption doesn’t get in the way of collaboration. After all, data is only […]
2022 DATAVERSITY Top 20
Every December, we here at DATAVERSITY set aside time to dig through our data and reflect on the hits and misses of the year. We want to know: Which content did you, our data-loving readers, consume and enjoy the most? Which Data Management topics and experts helped you learn valuable new skills, succeed at your […]
What Are Data Governance Tools?
Data Governance is the practice of creating processes, frameworks, and roles to manage an organization’s data. With today’s data-driven organizations focusing more on generating enormous amounts of data and analyzing them to pivot their business, it has become crucial to manage data the right way. Data Governance tools are the software applications that help you get […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2023: Toward Organizational Alignment
Any organization making data decisions should have a Data Strategy, a set of choices that chart a course of action to achieve high-level goals. In 2023, many business leaders will shift toward reframing their strategy to manage their data better. Over the past few years, most companies have managed data sporadically, resulting in a disjointed […]