Today information is the foundation upon which businesses are built and organizations need to prosper. However, given its value, information is not treated with sufficient respect by everyone in the organization. It sometimes seems that the only people that understand the value of information are those who are trying to steal it!
Big data makes this problem worse - in addition to the vast quantity of data from the Internet of Things and social media, so much unstructured information is now being created within organizations. Who owns this data and who is responsible for its security?
I believe that what is needed is better information stewardship. Information Stewardship is the holistic concept beyond Information Security which is based on the idea of taking care of to look after property that is not your own. Information stewardship involves everyone who creates information not just the application owners or the IT service provider.
I will be presenting a session this subject at RSA Europe on October 29th.
You can listen to a short podcast preview of this session.