Addressing Data Governance Requirements in a Dispersed Data Environment

With the significant increase of data sprawl, enforcing data governance policies has become increasingly more complicated.

With the significant increase of data sprawl brought on by the mobile workforce and cloud services (Office365, Box, Salesforce, Dropbox, and so on), enforcing data governance policies has become increasingly more complicated.

Certainly, mobile and cloud support has added to the business burden with the need for locating, tracking, monitoring, securing, and properly preserving sensitive data. Furthermore, data breaches cost organizations millions of dollars in fines, data loss, investigations, and customer backlash.

Most IT executives agree that working against the business by instituting a traditional command-and-control environment is no longer viable. They have also realized that new governance models are necessary to manage this risk.