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Data lakes can store masses of structured or unstructured data in raw format until your enterprise needs that data for analytics. That’s why data lakes are now seen as an attractive alternative to traditional data warehouses. However, enterprises like yours struggle to realize the expected return on data lake investments because of unexpected data quality, data governance, and data immediacy challenges. This paper describes how to address these issues and prevent your pristine data lake from devolving into a useless data swamp.
Data lakes can store masses of structured or unstructured data in raw format until your enterprise needs that data for analytics. That’s why data lakes are now seen as an attractive alternative to traditional data warehouses. However, enterprises like yours struggle to realize the expected return on data lake investments because of unexpected data quality, data governance, and data immediacy challenges. This paper describes how to address these issues and prevent your pristine data lake from devolving into a useless data swamp.
We face significant challenges with the current global pandemic and the spread of COVID-19. Whilst inevitably there is a focus on our physical and environmental safety at home and at work, we must also maintain our individual cybersecurity health and wellbeing, including the protection of personal data and maintaining cybersecurity standards.
OneTrust GRC is an integrated risk management platform that delivers a complete, measured view of your business’s risk portfolio providing clear insights to leadership and expediting the execution of routine tasks
Firstly, don’t add a fourth ‘P’ for Panic, but do take the current outbreak and associated risks seriously. We are at the start of something that could impact us in many ways for an indeterminate period of time. A pandemic (we are not quite there just yet) falls under one of the four categories of ‘operational risk’. This is NOT a drill or an exercise, nor does this completely align with typical Business Continuity (BC) exercises or thought processes. However, BC, Incident Response (IR) plans provide elements that will help along the way. Similar to an adverse event a pandemic will evolve in its own way and at its own speed, it is as much about how we prepare and respond that will aid our ability to reduce risks and in this instance potentially survive.
When reputation, revenue, and customer trust is at stake, it’s critical for organisations to be able to detect, respond and manage security incidents effectively. To address the need for comprehensive incident response, IBM Security created the X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team to help organizations proactively manage cyber attacks.
In many organisations there is a separate information security team that deals with all things relating to security. This team is responsible for designing and implementing all the controls needed to protect the organization, and for managing all major security incidents. So why does the service desk need to be involved, and what contribution should… Read More
IT and business executives are tasked with two strategic directives that seem inherently contradictory – they must empower the business and its people to operate at maximum speed while providing, at the same time, the optimum levels of security and risk management. Businesses of all sizes are being constantly challenged to effectively provide secure access… Read More
Why should my organization be concerned about erasing SSDs? Considering that by the end of 2016, 40% of hard-drives will be SSDs, and these SSDs cannot be erased using the same overwriting methods as HDDs, the security risks are even greater for IT professionals. Download our Data Erasure for Enterprise SSD to understand the unique… Read More