Hi everyone.
We've just posted a write-up of our most research early research project looking at sensitive data discovery and classification. You can
read the whole post here, but in short;
we heard that discovery isn't really that difficult ('
we created the data stores, so we know what's in them') and that
classification projects aren't on many people's to-do lists ('
classification would take some time to complete manually and it's not clear what the use would be'). But, we also heard that data documentation is important - both as a regulatory requirement and potentially for helping employees understand how to handle sensitive data.
In the post above we imagine an organisation that is now able to allow free, or wider use of sensitive data throughout their organisation because of 'SQL Atlas' - data documentation software which automatically categorises each piece of data and links it to a corresponding "handling" policy. Employees use this catalogue to inspect the data and follow predefined rules for its use.
So now we're interested to know... for the people you know who are responsible for all the data in their organisation (which might be you), what their reaction might be to a product like this. Would they trust it? What sort of questions might they ask?
Let us know below!
We've just posted a write-up of our most research early research project looking at sensitive data discovery and classification. You can read the whole post here, but in short; we heard that discovery isn't really that difficult ('we created the data stores, so we know what's in them') and that classification projects aren't on many people's to-do lists ('classification would take some time to complete manually and it's not clear what the use would be'). But, we also heard that data documentation is important - both as a regulatory requirement and potentially for helping employees understand how to handle sensitive data.
In the post above we imagine an organisation that is now able to allow free, or wider use of sensitive data throughout their organisation because of 'SQL Atlas' - data documentation software which automatically categorises each piece of data and links it to a corresponding "handling" policy. Employees use this catalogue to inspect the data and follow predefined rules for its use.
So now we're interested to know... for the people you know who are responsible for all the data in their organisation (which might be you), what their reaction might be to a product like this. Would they trust it? What sort of questions might they ask?
Let us know below!