Click to learn more about author Kendall Clark. What if data really is the fuel that powers engines of insight? Imagine a world exactly like ours in every way except for one key difference. Instead of the modern fossil fuel supply chain (i.e., Big Oil) being created before (or roughly coincident with) the mass production […]
5 Cybersecurity Best Practices Companies Should Follow
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Troy Gill. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an important reminder for individuals and companies to reflect on their security best practices and ensure they are building the safest […]
AI Is Booming with Image Recognition, but Audio Recognition Lags Behind
Click to learn more about author Rachel Roumeliotis. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made considerable inroads in the enterprise. Image recognition technology, in particular, has been gaining steam, helping users achieve tasks from assisting in screening and diagnosis of disease through medical imaging, to enabling self-driving cars to accurately interpret their surroundings. However, there is still […]
Are VPNs Safe? It’s Complicated
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Francis Dinha. Like clockwork, it seems as though every time you check the news you see a story about a major hack of an organization’s VPN. Colonial […]
How Companies Can Adapt to Global Data Privacy Regulations
Click to learn more about author Joe Gaska. On August 20, 2021, the People’s Republic of China passed its first comprehensive data privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). The law, set to take effect on November 1, 2021, includes several new obligations for companies handling personal information collected from the country’s citizens. It stipulates […]
Transparent Machine Learning: Key Steps and Tips for Getting Started
Click to learn more about author Deepak Dube. While machine learning is an involved science with complex models, what distinguishes transparent machine learning is that it explains itself – how it works, its predictions, its insights – so that the user understands and trusts the outcome. In this article, I explain what transparent machine learning […]
Excessive Bureaucracy Is Killing Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. Despite the best-in-class Data Governance policies and programs, failure rates are still too high. Current efforts often fall short of delivering trusted data, despite huge investments of time and money. People are looking for a better way, judging by the high popularity of “Data Governance 101” conference […]
Cyber Resilience Means More Than Just High Availability or Disaster Recovery Alone
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. What creates true cyber resilience? In database circles, the two factors that help lead to it – disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) – are […]
What Facebook and Big Tobacco Got Wrong (but AI Governance Can Still Get Right)
Click to learn more about author Anthony Habayeb. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress about abusive algorithms and AI referenced Big Tobacco’s enormous influence and fall in the latter half of the 20th century. What’s challenging about the comparison, however, is that smoking is unequivocally bad for you. AI governance offers great promise to enhance our […]
Dear Laura: My Data Governance Program Is Being Hijacked
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the […]