Article authored by Robert Merrick and Suzanne Ryan As personal information has become a monetizable asset, risk, compliance and data experts have increasingly been forced to address the regulatory and operational ramifications of the rapid, mass availability of personal customer and employee data circulated both inside and outside of organizations. Particularly in Canada and the…
Mark Jow shares some points that organizations should consider when analysing whether data protection processes and strategies are sufficient to meet the differing requirements of disaster recovery and data security. In today’s digital economy, simply capturing and storing data is no longer enough. In order to succeed, organizations need to re-think how they analyse and…
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined commercial pregnancy and parenting club Bounty some £400,000 for illegally sharing personal details of more than 14 million people. The organisation, which dishes out advice to expectant and inexperienced parents, has faced criticism over the tactics it uses to sign up new members and was the subject of a…
First published by Data Republic, 5 Jun 2019. With the introduction of recent privacy regulations like GDPR, data governance has become a hot topic for business everywhere but what’s the difference when it comes to data governance vs data management? In this guide, Data republic explores data governance vs. data management principles and how you…
By Peter Weill, Thomas Apel, Stephanie L. Woerner, and Jennifer S. Banner, MIT Sloan Management Review, March 12, 2019 Boards of directors have many issues competing for their attention, but being digitally conversant in an era of digital transformation is quickly rising to the top of the list. Nearly all companies are looking for ways…
First published by Dylan Bushell-Embling, Technology Decisions, 12 April, 2019 More than three in five (61%) Australian organisations have experienced a data breach over the past two years, according to research from the Ponemon Institute. A survey of security and IT professionals around the world, commissioned by IBM Resilient, found that Australia was the second…
Australian Digital Council, Prime Minister and Cabinet Office The State of the Data and Digital Nation provides an overview of the main data and digital transformation initiatives taking place across our country, at both Commonwealth and State and Territory government levels. Jurisdictions are striving to make Australians’ lives better, developing and implementing data and digital…
First published by Byron Connolly (CIO) 24 July, 2018 12:37 They rated lowest in the world in terms of maturity and impact. Australian organisations lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to extracting value from their data analytics efforts. The 50 local businesses analysed for a new report by Melbourne Business School…
First published by The Mandarin • 19/03/2019 Government agencies are, like the private sector, facing a rapidly evolving landscape around data protection, trust and public expectations that isn’t sufficiently covered by existing legislation. New legislation is being developed, but isn’t expected to be introduced before the federal election in May. The Office of the National Data…
By Networks Asia staff | Sunday, April 7, 2019 – 11:21 Organisations in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) are managing close to five times the amount of data they did in 2016, and yet only 13 percent of businesses are data protection “leaders”, according to the third Dell EMC Global Data Protection Index in collaboration…