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Kathleen Martin
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It’s an exciting time to be a vendor delivering data governance solutions. Every enterprise recognizes the challenges: too much data from too many sources on-premises, in multiple clouds, in motion and at rest; an unprecedented level of cyberattacks seeking to steal data, expose intellectual property, scam users and extort money; an expanding number of complex and overlapping privacy regulations around the world; hybrid work environments that have employees moving between home and office, between personal and work devices, making managing user access more difficult than ever.
Things won’t get any easier in 2022 when new governance and compliance demands will transform the what, when and where of data governance. Companies that have been complacent about implementing data governance controls — and even many of those that think they are making decent progress — will fall further behind if they don’t respond decisively.
The What: The Scope Of Data Governance Will Expand To All Data
Historically, data governance has been mainly applied to structured data. However, as new use cases demand insights from semi-structured and unstructured data sources, the scope of data governance will expand to include batch and streaming data originating from IoT devices, 5G, logs and clickstream data.
According to Gartner, data and analytics budgets are continuing to see large increases, and we expect a significant portion of these budgets to be applied directly to data governance practices. This will require businesses to transition from the haphazard and reactive way budgets were shifted to accommodate data initiatives during the peak of the pandemic to a coherent, rigorous and standardized approach to governing all data. This will be key to enabling reusability and automation to increase productivity and agility.
The When: Governance Goes Real-Time
Most likely, regardless of what data governance solution you have today, you can apply a policy (governing who can access what data) to a particular dataset. However, some regulations now have geography-based requirements. For example, an employee in Germany may have the right to access a particular dataset, but only when that employee is in Germany, not while traveling abroad, even for work.
This places a new layer of requirements on governance systems, as the policy enforcement mechanism must be capable of reacting in real time to variables associated with each request across the entire application infrastructure. In 2022, we expect regulators to put increasing pressure on enterprises — and enterprises to put increasing pressure on vendors — to enable compliance with this requirement.
The Where: The Supply Chain Is Compelled To Transform
The attack on the Colonial oil pipeline and a slew of successful ransomware attacks have made cybersecurity a tangible issue for business leaders in every industry. This is especially true in supply chain management, an industry built on data sharing. In 2022, we expect manufacturing supply chain partners to take a hard look at their data management, data security and data privacy practices to understand how they can protect themselves and each other. Government agencies and public utilities, such as water and power companies, will also begin to address in a more serious way the threat to their data and processes. If nothing else, this will be the year when having a data governance plan becomes a requirement for these organizations, and those without one will begin to face backlash.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/02/16/the-what-when-and-where-of-data-governance-gets-transformed-in-2022/?sh=78881eb85453
Things won’t get any easier in 2022 when new governance and compliance demands will transform the what, when and where of data governance. Companies that have been complacent about implementing data governance controls — and even many of those that think they are making decent progress — will fall further behind if they don’t respond decisively.
The What: The Scope Of Data Governance Will Expand To All Data
Historically, data governance has been mainly applied to structured data. However, as new use cases demand insights from semi-structured and unstructured data sources, the scope of data governance will expand to include batch and streaming data originating from IoT devices, 5G, logs and clickstream data.
According to Gartner, data and analytics budgets are continuing to see large increases, and we expect a significant portion of these budgets to be applied directly to data governance practices. This will require businesses to transition from the haphazard and reactive way budgets were shifted to accommodate data initiatives during the peak of the pandemic to a coherent, rigorous and standardized approach to governing all data. This will be key to enabling reusability and automation to increase productivity and agility.
The When: Governance Goes Real-Time
Most likely, regardless of what data governance solution you have today, you can apply a policy (governing who can access what data) to a particular dataset. However, some regulations now have geography-based requirements. For example, an employee in Germany may have the right to access a particular dataset, but only when that employee is in Germany, not while traveling abroad, even for work.
This places a new layer of requirements on governance systems, as the policy enforcement mechanism must be capable of reacting in real time to variables associated with each request across the entire application infrastructure. In 2022, we expect regulators to put increasing pressure on enterprises — and enterprises to put increasing pressure on vendors — to enable compliance with this requirement.
The Where: The Supply Chain Is Compelled To Transform
The attack on the Colonial oil pipeline and a slew of successful ransomware attacks have made cybersecurity a tangible issue for business leaders in every industry. This is especially true in supply chain management, an industry built on data sharing. In 2022, we expect manufacturing supply chain partners to take a hard look at their data management, data security and data privacy practices to understand how they can protect themselves and each other. Government agencies and public utilities, such as water and power companies, will also begin to address in a more serious way the threat to their data and processes. If nothing else, this will be the year when having a data governance plan becomes a requirement for these organizations, and those without one will begin to face backlash.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/02/16/the-what-when-and-where-of-data-governance-gets-transformed-in-2022/?sh=78881eb85453
