When it comes to having a Data Strategy, are you there yet? Remember, a real Data Strategy isn’t a road stop. It’s the destination. There’s optimism that Data Strategy in 2020 will be on the highway somewhere between those two points. Much of the good vibe is created by the fact that business stakeholders are […]
When Compliance isn’t Good Enough: Thinking Beyond Regulations is a Must
Click to learn more about author Mark Cassetta. As compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks into gear, how can organizations apply the most valuable lessons learned from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Topping the list is thinking and acting beyond compliance to build and sustain a long-range view of data […]
Data Architects, It’s Time to Improve Your Data Classification
Team Data — data architects in particular, whatever their official title may be — have a job to do. That is to take more aggressive steps to protect data assets on behalf of customers and constituents. The responsibility falls to data architects because few in most organizations are thinking about protecting data from the data […]
What Financial Institutions Need to Know About Processing Private Data
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. A financial institution that is governed by a customer data protection regulation like GDPR in the European Union, CCPA in California, or the upcoming PDP in India must have a valid, lawful basis to process personal data from prospects and customers along with customer private data from aggregators […]
Data Science Trends in 2020
The exponential growth of data, partly generated by sensor-driven devices, is making Data Science and machine learning (ML) market differentiators in global business-analytics solutions. With the rising demand in Data Science and ML skills, 2020 may well be a witness to several new trends in the field. According to IDC: “[I]f our digital universe or […]
Integris Software Releases Data Privacy Dictionary to Improve Global Data Privacy
A recent press release reports, “Integris Software introduces its Data Privacy Dictionary, a new tool to help data privacy, data governance and data protection professionals have a common lexicon to improve their communication and privacy management programs. Organizations face a variety of new challenges with shifting regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as […]
Big Data Trends in 2020
In 2019, automation frameworks designed to process big data made it much easier to go from the start of a new analytics project to the production phase. Additionally, per the requirements of GDPR, many more businesses now have Chief Protection Officers (and likely Chief Data Officers), which has, in turn, resulted in their shifting from […]
GDPR, CCPA, and the AI Explainability Question
Click to learn more about Abhi Yadav In most large organizations, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are powering key business functions, from big data analytics and customer service to fraud detection and personalized marketing. Insights that AI and ML can produce are powerful, but it’s often difficult, if not impossible, to explain how […]
Getting Ahead of Data Matching: Building the Right Strategies for Today and Tomorrow
Click to learn more about author Harald Smith. Every organization understands the importance of matching and connecting the same entities together (and the role of data quality capabilities to do so), but too often they take a limited view toward it, building data matching processes to address the situation in the moment but not taking […]
Why GDPR Compliance Does Not Mean You’re Ready for CCPA
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is not GPDR. If you made sure your company complied with GDPR, the good news is you won’t have to start from scratch for CCPA. But they are very different laws with subtle (and some not so subtle) differences that […]