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How do I get a career in data governance?
Most people do not get into data governance deliberately, I certainly did not. It often happens by accident. You are involved in some related work and you suddenly have this realisation about how beneficial data governance actually is. People then tend to choose to...
Is it time to stop operating in the moment and start ROI planning for 2022?
It’s that time of year when the annual planning cycle usually starts to come to life. Last year it never stood a chance as events overtook it. Many projects were put on hold, but many were fast tracked and ended up delivering faster and cheaper than anyone ever...
Do Data Governance Initiatives Age Out?
It’s very rare that I’m able to give a definite answer to a Data Governance question, more often than not my answer is: it depends. So many aspects of Data Governance are nuanced and depend very much on your organisation's objectives and what you hope to get out of...
The 3 Biggest Mistakes the Board can Make around Cyber Security
The protection of the business from cyber threats is something you need to grow, not something you can buyThe role of the Board in relation to cyber security is a topic we have visited several times since 2015, first in the wake of the TalkTalk data breach in the UK,...
What is Data Ownership?
We are going back to basics in this blog with a simple question that I’ve been asked quite a lot recently, and that is: ‘What is Data Ownership?’4Now, I think the reason this question is popping up a lot more frequently at the moment is that people are confused. They...
Cyber Security: The Operational Illusion
Security culture and governance eat tech for breakfast Looking back at what happened at ground level throughout the COVID crisis, it is clear that the focus has been entirely on operational matters: From moving into remote working at scale for the services industry,...
Data Governance on a ‘shoestring’ budget
Data Governance on a ‘shoestring’ budget - yes, it’s possible Demand for data governance is increasing as the result of Coronavirus, and at a time where resources are scarce. There’s a huge focus on data because people want to be sure what they have is of good enough...
Data Governance Interview with Kohinoor Mukherjee
Kohinoor Mukherjee started his career as a mainframe developer before moving onto business analysis, project and then program management. Kohinoor has been working on various data specific projects, mainly with financial institutions, for the last decade, and is now...
The CISO must be – first and foremost – a Leader
The key challenges of the transformational CISO are not technological, but managerial. There is still a vast amount of debate across the cyber security industry about the role of the CISO, their reporting line, their tenure, the levels of stress they’re under, and the...
Data Governance Interview with James Shaw
James Shaw is a Data Governance, Protection and Management professional with experience in managing data risks and assisting data transformations. He is the Data Risk Lead at esure Group. How long have you been working in Data Governance? I started work in Data...
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