Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up

Execute Data Security Standards

Successful data governance efforts don’t manage risk separate from engineering. Recall that when explaining their seven-step data governance framework, Gartner notes that businesses must include security risk when evaluating outcomes. Like data governance itself, your council can’t tack on risk and security as afterthoughts. Instead, your council should weigh relevant risks and opportunities when defining your ideal future state, then monitor data against those standards in production.

Remember the mission statement you wrote for data use in ​Clarify Your Company’s Mission Statement​? Your data governance council must do the same for security. This statement should be a clear, concise sentence which states how ...