Organizations nowadays process tons of consumer data every day. This data ranges from the standard – names, email addresses, etc. – to personally identifiable information, like social security numbers and banking credentials. And while this type of data is an asset, especially for businesses, accidentally revealing it and causing sensitive data exposure can be very […]
Data Privacy Day Is Here – Why Organizations Should Care
Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28th each year in the United States, Canada, and 49 other countries in an international effort to raise awareness around data privacy. It is meant to commemorate the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first international, legally binding treaty surrounding data and privacy protection, but it is more impactful […]
Deriving Business Value Through Data Governance
Growing companies often find themselves floating on an “ocean” of underutilized or misused data – data that doesn’t reach the people who would most benefit from it or reaches them at the wrong time. Preventing these issues is one of the primary objectives of Data Governance. It helps companies keep their customers satisfied with their […]
How Much Redundant, Obsolete, Trivial Data Do You Have?
Click to learn more about author Gary Lyng. Data is created at such a high volume that many IT executives simply don’t know what to do with it. In fact, many executives likely have no idea how or where their company’s data is stored, whether it’s been replicated, or what their internal Data Management practices […]
Data Ethics: What, Why Now, and Where Do We Start?
Click to learn more about author Peter Jackson. We have to make ethical decisions every day when working with data. The problem is, a lot of the time we might not realize when this is the case. Data professionals and organizations are often so focused on what can be done with data and at what scale, that […]
Three Tips for Safeguarding Against Data Breaches
Click to learn more about author Balaji Ganesan. Sources indicate 40% more Americans will travel in 2021 than those in 2020, meaning travel companies will collect an enormous amount of personally identifiable information (PII) from passengers engaging in “revenge” travel. In a near 100% digital world, sensitive information including credit card numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, COVID-19 […]
How Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Is Evolving
Click to learn more about author Beth Shulkin. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data used to identify an individual, such as social security number, phone number, or physical address. For years, merchants, banks, government agencies, and countless other organizations have relied on PII to service their customers, for processing transactions of online shoppers, approving […]
Use Artificial Intelligence to Streamline GDPR Compliance
It’s the morning of May 18, 2018 and you arrive at your desk to find a message from a former job applicant in Germany asking for an inventory of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) you have for him, and a request to delete all his information. There’s also a notice from IT saying they have […]
The Weakest Link in Personally Identifiable Information
Click here to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Most of you will be familiar with the famous line written by Walt Kelly for his comic strip “Pogo,” and reproduced many times, which states, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” When it comes to personal data security, we can definitely say we […]