Monitoring personal data across your systems has become a necessary evil, with privacy compliance creeping up on the agenda every year. While you can find numerous solutions that provide visibility into the data you store, there are three main methods of tracking personal data: surveys, scanning, and HTTP proxy implementation. But which of these techniques is best […]
The State of Cloud Security: How Businesses Can Win Trust with Customers
People today are often rightfully skeptical about sharing their information with companies and service providers. Large-scale data breaches, like the recent exposure of the personal data of 533 million Facebook users, can quickly disillusion consumers and tarnish brand trust. Nevertheless, consumers are required to hand over their personal information each time they sign up for a […]
Case Study: Centrica Succeeds with Data Discovery at Scale
“When you’ve got a mass of data, how do you analyze that data and get to a point where you can get the gemstones, the diamonds out of it?” Mike Young, Chief Information Officer with Centrica, knows what it’s like to wade through a sea of petabytes and terabytes to find value. Centrica is an […]
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 […]
Discovery and Reporting: The Bread and Butter of Data Migration
Click to learn more about author Daniel Esposito. Enterprise organizations evaluate several factors when choosing a data migration vendor. When making the choice, it helps to consider top priorities, so you know what to look for in the process. Here is a list that can help: Level of effort and associated cost of the solution […]
How to Improve Data Discovery with Sensitive Data Intelligence
Click here to learn more about Anas Baig. According to reports from IDC and Seagate, data is expected to grow at an exponential rate in the coming years. Reports suggest that by the year 2025, there will be an increase of data by 175 zettabytes. This amount of data can be beneficial to organizations, as […]
Moving Unstructured Data Is Risky and Pricey, but Critical: Five Steps to Improve It
Click to learn more about author Daniel Esposito. It’s time-consuming – and often very costly – for enterprises to perform a network-attached storage (NAS) or object data migration. As moving unstructured data has proliferated over the past decade, with as much as 90% of all data defined as unstructured data, the task has become increasingly […]
Fundamentals of Self-Service Business Intelligence
It’s clear that there is considerable recent market movement towards self-service business intelligence (SSBI) in the numerous vendor offerings available. There is also a growing concern among the Data Science community that ordinary business users may misunderstand or misinterpret the available data, leading to incorrect results. Experienced data scientists have a tremendous ability to analyze, […]
Ten Use Cases to Enable an Organization with Metadata and Catalogs
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Enterprises are modernizing their data platforms and associated tool-sets to serve the fast needs of data practitioners, including data scientists, data analysts, business intelligence and reporting analysts, and self-service-embracing business and technology personnel. However, as the tool-stack in most organizations is getting modernized, so is the variety of […]
What Is Assisted Predictive Modeling?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Assisted predictive modeling incorporates complex, sophisticated analytical and forecasting techniques in a self-serve environment where business users can employ tools to guide them through recommended techniques and report formats and ensure that the methods and reports they choose are appropriate to the type of data and information they […]