The Rise of Logical Data Management

Chapter 7. Data Governance and Security

Data is the lifeblood of your organization. Without it, you lack the ability to make informed decisions, improve the efficiency of workflows, or avoid potential losses and obstacles. But data is influential only if it is accurate, timely, and accessible to the people who need it. To enable this, you need processes in place to maintain high-quality standardized data, enforce well-defined data security policies, and protect customer and employee privacy. In this chapter, we will take a look at how logical data management provides your business with the tools to govern, secure, and deliver that data. You will understand how various teams within your organization will utilize these tools to not only ensure the security and accuracy of the data, but also continuously monitor the flow of data to avoid interruptions or mistakes.

This chapter is divided into three key components. First, you’ll dig deep into how traditional data governance is defined and applied. You’ll see how access, authentication, and authorization work together to ensure that the right data is available only to the right people. You’ll also see how logical data management implements these ideas to keep your data secure.

From there, you’ll explore how different groups in your organization work together to ensure that your data is not only secured, but also accurate, reliable, and accessible. You’ll do this through an example of a federated governance model. It will step you through ...