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From the Preface
In recent years, the ease of moving to the cloud has motivated and energized a fast-growing community of data consumers to collect, capture, store, and analyze data for insights and decision making. For a number of reasons, as adoption of cloud computing continues to grow, information management stakeholders have questions about the potential risks involved in managing their data in the cloud. Evren faced such questions for the first time when he worked in healthcare and had to put in place the processes and technologies to govern data. Now at Google Cloud, Uri and Lak also answer these questions nearly every week and dispense advice on getting value from data, breaking down data silos, preserving anonymity, protecting sensitive information, and improving the trustworthiness of data.
We noticed that GDPR was what precipitated a sea change in customers’ behavior. Some customers even deleted their data, thinking it was the right thing to do. That reaction, more than any other, prompted us to write this book capturing the advice we have provided over the years to Google Cloud customers.
If data is the new currency, we do not want enterprises to be scared of it. If the data is locked away or is not trustworthy, it is of no value.
We all pride ourselves on helping Google Cloud customers get value for their technical expenditures. Data is a huge investment, and we felt obligated to provide our customers with the best way to get value from it.
Customers’ questions usually involve one of three risk factors:
Securing the data: Storing data in a public cloud infrastructure might concern large enterprises that typically deploy their systems on-premises and expect tight security. With a significant number of security threats and breaches in the news, organizations are concerned that they might be the next victim. These factors contribute to risk management concerns for protecting against unauthorized access to or exposure of sensitive data, ranging from personally identifiable information (PII) to corporate confidential information, trade secrets, or intellectual property.
Regulations and compliance: There is a growing set of regulations, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and industry-specific standards such as global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) numbers in the financial industry and ACORD data standards in the insurance industry. Compliance teams responsible for adhering to these regulations and standards may have concerns about oversight and control of data stored in the cloud.
Visibility and control: Data management professionals and data consumers sometimes lack visibility into their own data landscape: which data assets are available, where those assets are located and how and if they can be used, and who has access to the data and whether they should have access to it. This uncertainty limits their ability to further leverage their own data to improve productivity or drive business value.
These risk factors clearly highlight the need for increased data assessment, cataloging of metadata, access control management, data quality, and information security as core data governance competencies that the cloud provider should not only provide but also continuously upgrade in a transparent way. In essence, addressing these risks without abandoning the benefits provided by cloud computing has elevated the importance of not only understanding data governance in the cloud, but also knowing what is important. Good data governance can inspire customer trust and lead to vast improvements in customer experience.
Who Is This Book For?
The current growth in data is unprecedented and, when coupled with increased regulations and fines, has meant that organizations are forced to look into their data governance plans to make sure that they do not become the next statistic. Therefore, every organization will need to establish an understanding of the data it collects, the liability and regulation associated with that data, and who has access to it. This book is for you if you want to know what that entails, the risks to be aware of, and the considerations to keep in mind.
This book is for anyone who needs to implement the processes or technology that enables data to become trustworthy. This book covers the ways that people, processes, and technology can work together to enable auditable compliance with defined and agreed-upon data policies.
The benefits of data governance are multifaceted, ranging from legal and regulatory compliance to better risk management and the ability to drive top-line revenue and cost savings by creating new products and services. Read this book to learn how to establish control and maintain visibility into your data assets, which will provide you with a competitive advantage over your peers.
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Publisher:O’Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 30, 2021)
Language:English
Paperback:254 pages
ISBN-10:1492063495
ISBN-13:978-1492063490
Item Weight:14.4 ounces
Dimensions:7 x 0.53 x 9.19 inches