As organizations enter a new year, leaders across industries are increasingly collecting more data to drive innovative growth strategies. Yet to move forward effectively, these organizations need greater context around their data to make accurate and streamlined decisions. A recent Data in Context research study found that more than 95% of organizations suffer from a data decision […]
How Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) Can Benefit Your Business
GDPR introduced the Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) requirements to drive better accountability from organizations with their use of personal data. Before GDPR, organizations didn’t track how they used and shared personal data, making data privacy risks impossible to comprehend. Now GDPR mandates that organizations create and maintain essential information about how an organization uses personal data. […]
Data Governance Without Security Leaves Sensitive Data Exposed
“Data Governance” is such an interesting term. As data started becoming more critical to business in the last few years, this idea was introduced to define the business processes necessary to comply with regulatory requirements. But even more recently, heightened regulatory attention with GDPR and CCPA in 2018, persistent PII data breaches, and data centralization across enterprises have created […]
Data Privacy Has Become a Human Right
A deep history of pivotal moments gave root to our modern idea of human rights. Ancients like King Hammurabi set in stone (literally) some parts of the idea that every person has basic rights and freedom. Along the way, the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Declaration of Rights, and U.S. Bill of Rights […]
What to Expect from AI in 2022
These past two years have ushered in major changes to how we navigate work, human interactions, and information. These shifts have coincided with the increased maturity of AI as a field. As AI has become more widespread, accessible, and acceptable, it’s stepped in to fill gaps in the economic, social, institutional, and political realms – […]
For Cloud Adopters, Data Privacy Day Is an Occasion for Both Hesitancy and Hope
Data Privacy Day is an occasion that brings decidedly mixed emotions for those who rely on the cloud to do business. On the one hand, it’s a day to celebrate the importance of data privacy and the very real advances that have been made by enterprises to ensure it. On the other hand, it’s a […]
3 Ways Strong Data Governance Practices Can Improve Your Business
Businesses have long struggled to find the balance between compliance and agility. This is especially true when it comes to Data Governance. According to TechTarget, Data Governance is the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data in enterprise systems, based on internal data standards and policies. Effective Data Governance ensures that […]
3 Best Practices When Using AI to Improve Compliance and Content Management
Organizations are at a pinnacle time to address how to leverage intelligent technologies. As a part of their modernization strategies, AI can help companies keep up with changing expectations from customers for more digital transactions and increase the efficiency in which they manage the influx of new digital content. Prior to the pandemic, AI, machine learning, […]
2022 Predictions: Data Privacy, API Attacks, and Embedded Finance
The second year of the pandemic, 2021 was an eventful one, as new security threats emerged and technological breakthroughs were made. Looking to 2022, IT and security professionals must be prepared for whatever comes next – from advancements in embedded finance to mounting consumer data privacy concerns to data breaches due to leaky APIs. Embedded Finance Will Revolutionize the Technology Industry Over the […]
The Pros and Cons of Synthetic Data
Data has established itself as one of the most important elements in both business and science. With the advent of big data services, companies can get access to previously unattainable advanced analytics, and researchers can find almost any imaginable dataset to draw insights from. However, all this potential is hindered by ever-pressing data privacy regulations. This is why […]