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Compliance, security, and the role of identity

CIO

Every day, modern organizations are challenged with a balancing act between compliance and security. While compliance frameworks provide guidelines for protecting sensitive data and mitigating risks, security measures must adapt to evolving threats. Here are several ways identity functions help both security and compliance efforts.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

However, managing PCI security compliance across various lines of business within these institutions can be a complex and resource-intensive task. The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance.

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO

But APIs do more than support next-generation technologies — they already serve a foundational purpose within most enterprises. As such, he views API governance as the lever by which this value is assessed and refined. As such, he views API governance as the lever by which this value is assessed and refined.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies.

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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

CIO

COBIT is an IT management framework developed by the ISACA to help businesses develop, organize, and implement strategies around information management and IT governance. The goal of the COBIT framework is to support “understanding, designing, and implementing the management and governance of enterprise IT (EGIT),” according to the ISACA.

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Enabling a sovereign cloud using a multicloud foundation: Technology executive considerations

CIO

To achieve these goals, IT and business executives must manage challenges across data governance, security, and compliance to protect sensitive customer, citizen, and country data using privacy, access, and security controls. For further details, check out the IDC report on sovereign cloud here.