The document summarizes the findings of a survey of over 750 corporate IT professionals regarding data governance practices in enterprises. Some key findings include: 1) the top regulations cited for compliance were PCI DSS, the Network and Information Security Directive, and FISMA; 2) while most organizations have data governance teams represented across departments like IT security and compliance, 17% are missing these teams; and 3) the top data governance challenges were managing user access to data (53%) and managing data storage locations (43%).
And there is not one type of business that is safe from data breaches. We are all at risk. As you can see from the major breaches from 2016 – and some that are older and were in the press - this is a wide range of organizations – from universities to government agencies, social platforms to email, healthcare, service providers – the list goes on.
Get more info about each of these breaches here:
https://www.identityforce.com/blog/2016-data-breaches