If 2015 was the year that corporate boards started to stay up at night thinking about cybersecurity like their IT guys, 2016 will be the year that they will take action to work with their C-Suite and CIO and/or CISO to get a handle on data security in the organization and take control of risk
Information Governance
Information governance outlook in 2016
By Jim Merrifield on
Posted in Information Governance
The purpose of an information governance program is to provide insight into information that is the most valuable to the organization, while minimizing associated risks and costs. Until recently, organizations focused less on the latter and heavily on gaining insight into the most valuable information. The reason for this change is largely due to the…
Unmasking Information Governance: What is it and how do I move it forward in my organization?
By Fernando Monteleone on
Posted in Information Governance
The heightened state of information security in recent years has instigated genuine collaboration, in many organizations, amongst its professionals in IT, records, security, risk, compliance, and other stakeholders in business management. After the various perspectives are heard, the need is clear – an Information Governance (IG) strategy.
What is IG? Wikipedia roughly defines IG as…
The key to information governance success lies within the framework
By Jim Merrifield on
Posted in Information Governance
There is no secret sauce to achieving information governance nirvana. The reality is someone must take ownership of an organization’s information governance program. The industry as a whole has been discussing that organizations appoint a chief information governance officer (CIGO) or its equivalent, to lead information governance efforts. The title is not important—the skill set…