Tips for a Data Backup Plan
Cyber-attacks are a huge problem for today’s businesses. If you are targeted by a criminal online, then you risk losing…
risk management
Data is Risky Business: Group Think and the Man Behind the Curtain
There have been a couple of different things converged in my media feeds that highlight a key issue that all…
Is GDPR a Grinch?
Most people know that GDPR went into effect in May 2018. For those of you who don’t know, GDPR was…
Active Information
We are used to talking about data and information as passive things. They are the facts, the result of what…
Data is Risky Business: Are We the Bad Guys?
My late grandfather liked westerns. He liked that the bad guy was always easy to spot. The bad guy was…
Data is Risky Business: The Customer Perspective
This article was going to be nice and tightly drawn, picking up on a single theme from my blog post…
Data is Risky Business: ARP – An Alternative Approach to Data Governance
The ARP-Method (which may not be its real name) is an approach to Data Governance that guides organizations towards “off…
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance – A Step Toward Value-Centric and Data-Driven
As trivial as it may sound today, 100 years ago companies from all industries elected electricity experts on their senior…
Data is Risky Business: Training is More Than a Monkey with Bad PowerPoint
I’m wearing my grumpy curmudgeon hat again this month. The Irish Computer Society recently published survey results from their annual…
Data is Risky Business: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Safe Harbor
On the 6th of October the Court of Justice of the European Union (the equivalent of the United States Supreme…