data management

Closely related to digital security and privacy is data management. At the same tiome as opening up significant business opportunities, data can become as significant risk if it is not managed correctly.

Data management is becoming increasingly complex area that businesses of all types are having to learn to deal with. And increasingly state and bsuiness area regulators are driving significant requirements of businesses that hold data and may directly or indirectly lead to concerns around privacy or commercial interests.

The starting point of a data management strategy is Identify, followed by Montoring and Acting. ixa2a expertise is in the early stages of the Identify process. We can enable you to better know, categorise and manage your digital assets. We do this through architectural modelling that will enable you to set up tools to locate and monitor those assets. In many cases the identification will start out with a fuzzy definition and over time that will be refined.

Typical engagements

• Collect and manage data associated with potential courses of treatment for a pharmaceutical company

• Develop an inventory of data assets in order to better understand the market segment targetted

• Plan the data inventory for a PCI DSS conformance test