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 […]
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 […]
3 Things You Should Do to Protect Your Consumers’ PII in a Contactless World
Click to learn more about author Deepak Gupta. What if you could go to a coffee shop, have your phone charged, and pay without taking your phone out of your pocket? What if you could quickly pay without handing out cash while waiting in line at the cinema or the bus station? Or drive up […]
Cloud-Based Data Management Platforms in the Age of Privacy
Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. Currently, many businesses are using public clouds to do their Data Management. Data Management platforms (DMPs) started becoming popular during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. At that time, the internet services offered by Amazon and Salesforce appealed to a large number of businesses because […]
Enterprise Data Sharing: Commercially Identifiable Information
Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so much […]
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 […]
Creating a Competitive Advantage Through Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Chris Mullaney. The importance of data privacy and securing personally identifiable information (PII) is at an all-time high. Cyber threats are evolving, data breaches are growing, and privacy regulations and certifications are consistently being rolled out. Having a strong security and data privacy infrastructure is no important to just […]
Your Data Footprints: A Survival Guide for an Increasingly “Dataholic” World
Click to learn more about author Ram Sivasankaran. Would you willingly pay to own a device that constantly transmits information on your activity to the manufacturer? Would you provide details as private as your name, birthday, phone number, gender etc., to a service that makes that information publicly available? Would you bank with a financial […]
PASS Adopts New Redgate Data Cataloging Solution to Stay Ahead of Data Privacy Concerns
A new press release reports, “PASS, the global community of data professionals, has become one of the first major users of a new solution from Redgate that automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data in SQL Server. The adoption of SQL Data Catalog will give the organization a clear picture of data across its entire estate, […]
Top Six GDPR Compliance Stumbling Blocks with Possible Solutions
Click to learn more about author Adriene Raynott. Introduction GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation is a data security law concerned with the citizens of the European Economic Area and the European Union. Any company that uses personal and commercial data of these citizens must comply with the rules of GDPR. Summarizing the GDPR […]