From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 2 Asset Security
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Data security roles
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 2 Asset Security
Data security roles
- [Instructor] Data security is a complex problem and many different people throughout the organization play a role in protecting information. Let's take a look at some of the concepts surrounding data ownership and stewardship. Data governance in many organizations follows a four tiered model of roles. At the highest level, the data owner for particular data sets is a senior level official who bears overall responsibility for that data. The data owner sets policies and guidelines around data use and data security and has the authority to make final decisions regarding a dataset. Data owners are usually the business leaders who have responsibility for the mission area most closely related to the data set. For example, an organization's vice-president for human resources might be the data owner for employment information. The European union's general data protection regulation, GDPR uses the term data controller to refer…
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