EDITOR’S QUESTION
Maintaining a record of processing and
facilitating a user’s right to access; rectifying
and forgetting are virtually impossible. Tools
that could immediately help address this
data dilemma range from Enterprise Data
Quality to Master Data Management. These
tools aim to ensure accuracy, consistency,
integrity and correct referencing. only relational data, but XML, graph,
spatial and binary value pairs is a clear
winner as a preferred data store
• When changing the purpose of
processing data, such as using it for
testing, development or historical trend
reporting, data should be pseudonymised
or masked in technical lingo
While these tools can help, it is
recommended that organisations work on
clutter reduction and consolidation. To start
tidying up, the first step is to stop processing
unnecessary data. Some data will always be unstructured
such as documents, spreadsheets and
presentations, containing significant
amounts of sensitive data which has recently
been moved to the cloud.
• The collection of data needs to have
business purpose
• Data lifecycle management needs to be
amended with data retention as well as
disposal policies Additional unstructured data resides in cloud
file systems. We have already witnessed
some high-profile data breaches which were
caused by overshared cloud storage.
Secondly, organisations are encouraged to
look into the replication of data used for
different purposes. In household terms this
would be buying the same item over and
over again and placing it in a different place
every time. The solution would be:
• Using a data storage solution that can
cater for various data types
• Using a database that can handle not
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is
the most important control in protecting
unstructured data in the cloud. CASB that
can protect cloud applications, productivity
tools and storage emerges as a winner.
While explicit rules for monitoring access
are important, anomaly detection plays an
even bigger role, therefore user and entity
behaviour analytics based on Machine
Learning and AI are technologies to look for.
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