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Time to Bring the Cyber Security Technical Debt under Control
Stop buying more tech for the sake of it and start focusing on the decluttering of your cyber security landscape. For the past two decades, most large organizations have kept addressing cyber security as a purely technical problem. And let’s face it: Many are failing...
Getting Things Done: The Secret Sauce for the CISO
The key around cyber security remains: Execution, Execution and Execution. The short tenure of the CISO continues to generate a vast amount of debate, aggravated by the COVID pandemic and the “great resignation” episode that it is inducing. Looking beyond its reasons,...
Do I really need data governance when I’m doing Master Data Management?
This is a question that I have been asked many times over the years and my answer is always an unequivocal “yes”! Of course that is always followed up with the question “why”? And that one is a little harder to answer… You can easily Google and find plenty of people...
What the Data and Tech Industries Are Doing to Support Ukraine – D.A.T.A
Like people and industries across the world people in data and tech are doing everything they can to help the people of Ukraine as they face some of the worst of humanity. D.A.T.A was born out of a feeling of helplessness, and we have a very clear mission. We are...
What makes a good Data Governance consultant?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to come up with a list of skills that a good Data Governance consultant needs. Not necessarily an exhaustive list, but a good jumping off platform for anyone thinking about a career in this field. My goal was to keep to a...
Data Governance Interview with Rob Saundby
I have been working in IT for over twenty years, of which the last ten have been specialising in data management. During this time, I have been lucky enough to have worked across a wide range of industry sectors including banking, insurance, telecoms, media and...
Cyber Security: The Message that Never makes it up to the Board
In most organisations, it has never been “owned” as such at Board level in spite of the tidal wave of cyber attacks which have rocked most industries across the last decade, and the false pretence by many that it’s on their agenda…
Data Literacy: So What?
A few months ago I was approached by Nicola to discuss the topic of Data Literacy as a series of thoughts around how there might be an opportunity to provide some training on the subject; as a result of that discussion Nicola asked me to write this blog to provide...
The Way Forward with Cyber Security Target Operating Models
“Process and People first, THEN Technology” will always be at the heart of the winning formula here Many large organisations across all industries face the same challenges around cybersecurity and privacy: Growing regulatory demands, compounded by escalating cyber...
Do you know what is in a Data Governance Framework?
If you are reading this blog, then there is a very high chance that at some point in the not-too-distant past you have googled the term ‘data governance framework’. Not only that, but you’ve also probably also had a whole myriad of answers come back. Some of which...
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