Information Governance in the AI age
Background Regional wholesaler and largest supplier of treated water in the United States serving 19 million people, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (The “District”) had accumulated 80 TB of data over 30 years of file share use. With 1800 employees, the process to clean up the data was […]
Following the highly publicised Equifax data breach in 2017, Active Navigation’s software was deployed into a complex tech stack and worked to identify, classify and protect sensitive data assets.
While IG, Legal, Risk and eDiscovery practitioners understand the need to minimise data in accordance with justifiable disposition of data and records, privacy regulations are now also drivers for organisations to review the personal information they are collecting. GDPR’s principle of data minimisation is making organisations rethink what constitutes acceptable data use. Australian Privacy Principle 11.3 requires an APP entity to take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information that is no longer needed for any purpose for which the personal information may be use or disclosed under the APPs.
You can read more about how Equifax is using Active Navigation’s software, Discovery Center, to identify and delete unnecessary records, which proactively reduces overall data surface footprint and facilitates data privacy compliance.
This latest case study from the Information Governance Initiative demonstrates how Ameritas, an insurer, began with a pilot project to tackle a clearly identified business problem which they addressed using data analysis, indexing, searching, tracking and reporting tools from Active Navigation.
In this white paper, sponsored by IGANZ supporter Active Navigation, Russel Stalters, CEO of Clear Path Solutions, outlines a roadmap for reducing your organisation’s biggest information risk.
Over a typical business cycle, a large organisation produces staggering volumes of data. This will include essential records, valuable business intelligence, and knowledge uniquely relevant to the business. But frequently 50% or more of the content is utterly useless – it is dead weight, consuming storage capacity and obscuring the genuinely valuable content, burying the essential digital needles in terabytes of useless haystack.
With the help of the file analysis and governance experts, the Pandora GRC team discovered that at least 60% of its unstructured data had no value and there was no business or legal reason to continue to spend precious resources on protecting and storing it. So they took control, realising significant security,
privacy, cost, and productivity benefits along the way.
Looking at one organization’s experience with IG, can provide valuable lessons and practical insights that will help all IG professionals mature their IG programs. This case study details a common but complex IG problem: managing the relationships among key IG players.
