As companies continue to place a greater emphasis on sharing and analyzing enterprise information, employees at all levels of the organization are starting to assume data management responsibilities. Unfortunately, this push for fluid communication and strategic interpretation has taken sensitive as...

IT security has been governed by the paradigm of layering defenses in recent years, and it can be an effective way of mitigating digital risks. Frequent revision and continued improvement makes sense for cybersecurity because of the dynamic nature of the threat landscape. However, Dark Reading's Tim...

The healthcare industry has been an avid adopter of new technology such as the cloud and mobile devices. The proliferation of electronic health records has yielded significant advantages for doctors and other health professionals, but technology deployments may be accelerating faster than data secur...

As organizations aggregate and integrate information in greater volume and variety, protecting sensitive data has become a much more complex task. While the insights generated from pooling databases and mining reports can be immense, a keen eye should be kept on governance priorities to ensure innov...

Consumer awareness of corporate data collection policies increased significantly in 2012. Heading into 2013, consumers will increasingly expect businesses to protect their privacy, according to a recent CNET article. "Brought on by numerous privacy policy changes to high-profile social networks … b...