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Time to Look at the Role of the CISO Differently
What is now required is political acumen, managerial experience, and personal gravitas, more than raw technology skills. In spite of being widely used, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has only had a few decades of existence and is still...
Three Axes of Discussion to Build up a Cyber Security Agenda at Board Level
Revisiting the questions the Board should ask (one more time…) This piece in the HBR caught my attention (“7 Pressing Cybersecurity Questions Boards Need to Ask” — Dr Keri Pearlson, Nelson Novaes Neto — 4th March 2022), not least because I wrote on the same theme and...
What is Data Wrangling?
If you are a regular follower of my videos and blogs, you will know that one of my key aims is to help explain the vast - and sometimes confusing – amount of terminology that is found within Data Governance. Often things have different meanings depending on the...
Guest blog – Data science and data governance: collaboration for trustworthy data insights
Data scientists are storytellers. They gather data from a variety of sources, clean and combine that data, and use their programming, math, statistical and analytical skills to interpret that data. Data scientists can help businesses understand customers and market...
Who Owns the Data that Appears in Your Reports or Dashboards?
If you’ve ever read any of my previous blogs on data ownership, you’ll probably know that I feel quite categorically, from my many years of experience, that you really cannot have more than one Data Owner per data set. It really doesn't work, and I don’t recommend you...
Leading by Listening: The Other Secret Sauce for the CISO
The times have gone when the CISO had to explain what cyber security was about and the value it brought In the face of non-stop cyber-attacks, and the urgency of change around cyber security practices in large firms, the CISO has to be – first and foremost – a leader....
Data Governance Interview with Miles Reah by Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach
My name is Miles Reah and I have worked as a data governance consultant predominately in investment banking but more recently in insurance and healthcare. I am currently working as a Data and AI Consulting Manager for Avanade helping our clients discover the value of...
How to get your business stakeholders to want and use a Data Glossary
Getting a data glossary in place can take a lot of hard work and effort, so it can be particularly frustrating if/when your business users don’t truly appreciate the value it brings and either don’t want to help you build it or don’t use it when it has been built. Why...
Cyber Security Awareness Programmes: Are They Really Working? And What to Do About it?
When some people say they don’t know what to do around cyber, you may want to ask them where they have been for the last 10 years… For a number of years, I have been puzzled by the high idea some cyber security professionals seem to have that their job is about...
At what level should Data Owners and Data Stewards be?
In previous blogs we’ve discussed what Data Owners and Data Stewards are and during those discussions, I’ve given you hints as to what level of seniority within your organisation these people should be, but in this article, we’re going to address it directly. First of...
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