According to a recent press release, “SmartRIA and Greytwist have announced today the acquisition by SmartRIA of Greytwist Data Governance, a solution for vendor due diligence and management, personally identifiable information (PII) data governance and cybersecurity policy and procedures management and oversight. The asset sale includes the Greytwist Data Governance software platform, which will be […]
Io-Tahoe Leads Industry Movement Towards Continuous Automated Governance
According to a recent press release, “Io-Tahoe, a pioneer in Smart Data Discovery and AI-Driven Data Catalog products, in its efforts to continue to transform the data discovery market, today announced it has released the latest version of its Smart Data Discovery platform – Smart Streaming Discovery – with the ability to perform real-time data […]
Google Me, Google You: Data Privacy and Data Gathering
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Who hasn’t Googled their name at one time or another? It can be affirming, as in “Wow, they know I gave a presentation at a conference”, or scary as in “Wow, they know I have a police record!” Yes, there isn’t much they don’t know, and it’s not […]
RiskIQ Announces GDPR PII Analytics Solution for Website Compliance
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today announced new functionality in RiskIQ Digital Footprint to help organizations ensure that their websites comply with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under GDPR, which covers the protection of EU personal data, fines can be considerable […]
Privacy Impact Assessments: Why and When to Do Them
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. What is a Privacy Impact Assessment? A Privacy Impact Assessment, or PIA, is an analysis of how personally identifiable information (PII) is collected, used, shared, and maintained. Why do it? If your organization needs to comply with the GDPR, a PIA will demonstrate that program managers and system […]
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 […]
Data Marketplace Governance Gets Personal
Click to learn more about author Bob Vecchione. The inspiration for sharing this perspective came from a recent data security initiative with a top 10 North American financial institution who has operationalized its Data Lakes. Due to enhanced visibility of the data on the business side, and at the behest of the data security team, this […]
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 […]