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Data classification as part of data governance

Data classification as part of data governance

From the course: Privacy, Governance, and Compliance: Data Classification and Inventory

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Data classification as part of data governance

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- [Instructor] Data classification can help drive a much more deterministic and data-driven access management program. This is one example of building sound data governance rather than making shortsighted decisions that will produce suboptimal long-term outcomes. Privacy programs could take two distinct access management approaches. The first, a lockdown model, the second, a model I call tooling, trust, and training. The lockdown model will require engineers and many others to go through very strict controls to access data. While this may be practical in some companies like healthcare companies for example, it could also have unintended consequences. In a fast-paced environment, as the scale of data grows and as several teams work together on that data, the lockdown approach will slow down the business even when the data being accessed is not privacy sensitive. For example, I have a close friend who works in customer…

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