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Welcome To the Datagovops Revolution
By Ani Chaudhuri, CEO, Dasera

Sales has SalesOps. Marketing has MarketingOps. Engineering and Security have DevOps, DevSecOps,
and SecOps.

It’s high time for Data Governance to have DataGovOps.

Revisiting Data Governance

First, let’s make sure everyone’s on the same page with respect to Data Governance. According to
Google Cloud, Data Governance is (with added emphasis):

…everything you do to ensure data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable. It
includes the actions people must take, the processes they must follow, and the technology that
supports them throughout the data life cycle… Data governance means setting internal
standards—data policies—that apply to how data is gathered, stored, processed, and
disposed of. It governs who can access what kinds of data and what kinds of data are under
governance.

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