Big data

CIOs won't own enterprise machine learning -- they'll enable it

How can CIOs support an enterprise machine learning initiative? They can start by building a data lake. Continue Reading

The anatomy of a smart app

How do you make IoT technology development manageable? Mendix's Johan den Haan says the answer lies in adopting a platform approach with an additional model-driven platform layer. Continue Reading

What's our future if we don't secure IoT devices?

When everything from the coffee maker to the manufacturing plant's robots to the electric grid is connected, shouldn't security be IT's primary concern? Continue Reading

Data integrity protection spurs greater security spending

As hacking, ransomware and malware attacks mount, companies place big data protection and integrity among the primary reasons for increased spending on security software. Continue Reading

GDPR requirements put focus on data ethics, governance

The General Data Protection Regulation makes privacy paramount and reinforces the practice of good data governance. Will a new focus on data ethics be an important side effect? Continue Reading

U.S. data protection laws fall short in the age of big data

Data breaches and a history of data abuse led the EU to adopt GDPR, but it might take massive scale data security crises for the U.S. to legislate similar data protection laws. Continue Reading

Security of big data fashions a whole new look with GDPR

As data managers scramble to protect their precious lakes of washed and unwashed data from the evils of hacking, malware, ransomware and botnets, there comes a privacy regulation of European Union origin that could change the way many U.S. companies protect their data from inside and outside forces. For some U.S. companies doing business in Europe and preparing for compliance, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation could be a well-intended enforcer of better data governance practices. But for businesses forced to change their old data protection habits, GDPR can be a four-letter word.

The April issue of Business Information opens with our editor's note and historical insights into the fundamental differences in attitude between the U.S. and Europe when it comes to protecting the data privacy of customers. As data breaches mount, however, the U.S. government -- willing or not -- may have to take steps beyond current regulations to ensure companies increase their security of big data.

Along those lines, our cover story examines some GDPR rules that can directly impact U.S. companies doing business overseas and, in the process, their data governance and ethics procedures. With the noted lack of maturity in data governance and security tools, we see in another feature how IT teams are addressing data security issues upfront in do-it-yourself ways when deploying big data systems.

Also in this issue, a GDPR compliance expert advises data managers on the best ways to prepare for a regulation that puts more control of information in the hands of users, the internet of things and edge computing could be compromising the security of big data and surveys show that companies place data protection among the top reasons for escalating their security spending.

IoT, edge computing spawn new security issues

As real-time big data increasingly hitches up to internet of things, edge computing power and fog nodes, a whole new layer of security threats emerges. Continue Reading

IT teams take big data security issues into their own hands

Data security needs to be addressed upfront in deployments of big data systems -- and users are likely to find they have to build some security capabilities themselves. Continue Reading