The document summarizes the findings of a survey of over 750 corporate IT professionals regarding data governance practices in enterprises. Some key findings include: 1) the top regulations cited for compliance were PCI DSS, the Network and Information Security Directive, and FISMA; 2) while most organizations have data governance teams represented across departments like IT security and compliance, 17% are missing these teams; and 3) the top data governance challenges were managing user access to data (53%) and managing data storage locations (43%).

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Data Governance
in the Enterprise
Highlights from Our Research Report

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Methodology
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We surveyed over 750 corporate IT professionals in the U.S. and UK
to shed light on the current state of data governance practices inside
enterprise businesses, as well as illustrate key risks and challenges
that must be addressed.
Here are some of the key findings.

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Data protection laws affect everyone.
PCI DSS
43%
Network and Information
Security Directive - 34%
FISMA- 34%
UK Data
Protection Act
39%
The following regulations were cited by respondents as
important for compliance.

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Successful Data Governance Requires
Collaboration Across Departments.
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17% of enterprise organizations are missing data
governance teams.
The 78% of organizations that have data governance teams are represented by the
following departments:
IT Security (70%)
IT Operations (62%)
Compliance (34%)
Legal (31%)
Records Management (28%)
Business Representatives (16%)

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53% of respondents said
user access to data is
their top data governance
challenge.”
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While 43 percent said their biggest challenge is related
to managing where data is stored.

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87% of organizations
classify data.
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classify data
according to legal
requirements.
classify data based
on how sensitive it
is to unauthorized
disclosure/
modification.
classify it according
to its perceived
value to their
organization.
58% 56% 43%
13% of organizations either don’t classify data or they
“don’t know” if they do.

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22% of organizations
don't have written data
disposal/destruction
policies in place to
handle data that’s no
longer needed.

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Download it here:
https://www.blancco.com/resources/rs-data-
governance-inside-the-enterprise/
See the full research study.