Several converging forces are putting pressure on our management of information – regardless of whether we view the subject as individuals, corporations, nonprofits, or government authorities. The goal of this upcoming issue of the Cutter Business Technology Journal will be to present multiple perspectives and potential solutions to this growing problem.
Until perhaps a decade ago, the two concerns IT managers had about data (or information – let’s treat the two terms as synonymous for now) were its exponentially growing volume and the need to secure it against attackers. The solutions we brought to these problems – from cloud storage to firewalls and intrusion detection systems – have allowed us to barely stay ahead of the hackers. Meanwhile, e-commerce and social networks led a couple billion people to share an increasing amount of personal data, and IoT technology caused much more information to be captured about what we do and where we are. You know the rest of this still evolving story of data privacy: the revelations about NSA surveillance; the Target and Equifax breaches (and many more); the collapse of the EU-US safe harbor provision; the emergence of the stricter and punitive GDPR; the evidence of election manipulation through well-targeted, fake political advertising; Mark Zuckerberg’s uneasy testimonies in front of US and European legislative bodies – and this is surely not the end.
If that wasn’t enough, we have also started seeing the stifling effect of data residency laws and regulations on the movement and storage of data. Microsoft refused (until a recent resolution) to hand over data located on a server overseas, LinkedIn and Telegram are banned in Russia, companies like Amazon and Microsoft have had to multiply regional data centers in order to assure international clients that their data would not leave their countries.
With the convergence of all these concerns (security, privacy, data residency), the big questions for companies and regulators alike are: who is in charge, and who should be? What should be the policies and best practices? In other words, what does “data governance” mean and how do you put it in place? Have we diminished the role of the CIO even as we were entering the era of digital transformation, in ways that made her or him effectively unable to put in place an information strategy? Are we naively trying to compensate for that failure by naming Chief Data Officers – and if the CIO failed at data protection, why should someone else, with a virtually identical title and an overlapping mission, succeed?
An upcoming issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal with Guest Editor Claude Baudoin invites perspectives and recommendations on these issues. We particularly encourage action-oriented proposals that will offer our readers concrete steps to gain control over information and mitigate the risks to their organizations.
Article ideas might include, but are not limited to, the following:
- What does data governance mean and what are some effective governance models?
- What are the key policies and procedures involved in ensuring good data governance?
- How do you define and assess the maturity level of an organization in this respect?
- What technologies need to be introduced to better manage data?
- What are the organizational and technical challenges involved in implementing a data governance strategy? In particular, who is responsible and/or accountable for data governance? What should the role of the Chief Data Officer (if any) be, or how do you redefine the role of the CIO?
- What are the implications of the GDPR on data governance?
- What is the future of data governance?
Abstract Submissions due June 26, 2018. Please send article ideas to Christine Generali and Claude Baudoin including an abstract and short article outline showing major discussion points. Accepted articles will be due July 27, 2018. Final article length is typically 2,000-3,500 words plus graphics. More editorial guidelines.
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