Keepit, the independent, cloud-native data protection and backup provider, has published a new report that covers the ‘foundational importance of data control in the age of AI’, with a focus on ensuring modern enterprises’ cyber resilience and compliance.
‘Intelligent data governance: Why taking control of your data is key for operational continuity and innovation’ is based on interviews with 30 senior IT leaders across a range of industries and regions. These in-depth conversations revealed a number of trends that serve as context for today’s enterprise IT organizations, including cloud flexibility, the rise of AI, and ever-increasing budget pressures.
The report states that CIOs and CISOs will play increasingly crucial roles in enabling enterprises to ensure resilience and will need to prioritise their efforts to outfit their organizations with tools to lay a sustainable foundation for business continuity. For these IT decision-makers, data control will be a prerequisite to achieving this goal.
Data governance paves the way for data resilience. Through data classification, companies will be able to detect any gaps in their business continuity plans, and, as an added benefit, enhance their current day-to-day operation
Kim Larsen, CISO at Keepit
The new report finds that data governance is a key tool when striving to stay compliant as regulations such as NIS2, DORA, and GDPR are impacting organizations. It also finds that CIOs and CISOs are ultimately accountable for ensuring data resilience so that users, applications, and other entities can access company data as needed. The three primary components of resilience are prevention, detection and recovery.
