A common thread runs through adverse events ranging from theft of a data-laden laptop to granting disaster housing money to prison inmates.
The thread is poor data governance, according to Steve Adler, program director for an IBM-led initiative known as the Data Governance Council. Speaking to corporate auditors and data security types at the C3 Expo IT trade show in New York yesterday, Adler cited the now-infamous recent lapses at the Veterans Affairs Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
IBM has identified 11 data governance-related subjects, such as an organization’s awareness of good data practices or whether it has done a proper risk analysis for its data.
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