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Once something of a compliance specialty, data sovereignty has become a strategic imperative for any organization operating internationally. If you ...

Knowing everything there is to know about your information is critical to your risk mitigation efforts. Yes, this surfaces areas ...

Aren’t audits fun? The mad scramble for needed documentation. The tight timelines. The limited staff resources. And the reward of ...

The need to maintain tight information security is well understood, and plenty of time and money is being spent to ...

Information inventories and data maps are critical to governance success – and quite challenging to accomplish. (See here, here, and ...

To (badly) paraphrase JFK, focus not on the governance, but on what governance lets you do.

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Improvement in any arena requires a baseline against which to measure progress. In information, this means conducting a comprehensive inventory ...

As I’ve written previously, you can’t do anything with your information (apply retention, protect privacy, etc.) unless and until you ...

My post on the criticality of an information inventory (sometimes known as a data map) seems to have hit a ...

Good governance must begin with knowing what information you have and where it is stored – after all, you can’t ...

I recently received a high compliment from a client that I want to share, not to self-congratulate but to highlight ...

Like you, I’ve spent a lot of time tracking AI’s features and foibles. And somewhat to my surprise, I find ...

A recent survey of 800 employees has found that (a) compliance processes are often considered burdens rather than enablers, and ...

The most efficient and effective governance projects tend to be those that follow some sort of emergency: a breach, a ...

So many governance discussions focus on policies and retention schedules. And this isn’t wrong, for these undoubtedly are critical pieces ...

Pursuing good governance? It’s about time. And I mean that literally because, right there alongside money, time is your most ...

Remember how AI was going to disrupt and transform our businesses? Well, according to many of my perambulations – and ...

One of our most recent IG Community Roundtables focused on the records-worthiness of AI prompts and outputs, and continued what had already ...

According to a recent McKinsey survey, “corporate leaders see a ‘need for improvement’ across numerous aspects of [GRC],’” a finding ...

The thing about paper records is that EVERYBODY has them.In boxes.
In file cabinets.
On people’s desks.We don’t think about this much ...

“I feel lighter.”
“I feel freer.”
“I feel like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.”With these words, my friend ...

Are you tired of the hype surrounding AI? Do you wish someone would just cut to the chase and say ...

Organizations today are rushing to explore and deploy AI applications; perhaps yours is among them? If so, it’s critical not ...

One of my greatest frustrations as a governance consultant is clients’ insistence that they’ll worry about preparing their information for ...

Establishing and maintaining good data and information governance is a lot more art than science. While there is a science ...

If you’re keeping score at home, you may remember that I’m speaking at InfoNEXT 2025 in a couple of weeks ...

Once upon a time, I had a client who asked me to help them bolster their practices regarding personally-identifiable information ...