EPISODE 53: Whose Responsibility Is It To Protect The Data? The Data Team Or The Cybersecurity Team?

About this episode

The episode discusses the responsibilities of data teams versus cybersecurity teams in protecting data, featuring insights from Tim Hatton of AND Digital.

The data landscape is changing faster than ever, and with it, the security threats - so whose responsibility is it to make sure your data is safe? Is it the data team? Or is it the cyber team? We tackle this question and more with Head of Data at AND Digital, Tim Hatton. From leveraging AI to secure data to the importance of real user testing, to how Tim threat models his client’s data capability, you won’t want to skip this ever-important topic! We also talk about ‘data mesh’ and if you’re not familiar with that term - it’s a data management framework that decentralises data ownership and responsibility to the teams that use the data. The idea is to make data more accessible and available to business users by directly connecting data owners, data producers, and data consumers. So you can see why we thought that was an important topic to cover because, with this model, comes a lot of trust in others doing the right thing when it comes to data security! So you won’t want to ‘mesh it up’ if people are following this framework in your organisation.

People in this episode

Guest: Tim Hatton

Topics covered

• data security
• data management
• cybersecurity
• data mesh
• AI in data protection

Keywords

• data protection
• cybersecurity
• data team
• cyber team
• data mesh
• AI
• data ownership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AND Digital

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