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Data Governance: Challenges and Solutions

Eliud Nduati
3 min readNov 10, 2024

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Data security, governance, management, and cloud technologies are critical components of managing large amounts of data in today’s digital world. However, these areas also come with their own set of challenges. This post will explore some of the common challenges in these areas and discuss potential solutions.

Data Security Challenges

One of the main challenges in data security is protecting data from unauthorized access or misuse. This can be particularly difficult for businesses and organizations that deal with large amounts of sensitive or confidential data, such as financial or medical data. Some potential solutions to this challenge include:

  • Encrypting data: Encrypting data is a way of scrambling it so that it is unreadable to anyone who does not have the decryption key. This can help protect data from being accessed by unauthorized individuals.
  • Setting up access controls: Access controls limit who can access data and how they can access it. This can include setting up user accounts and permissions and implementing measures such as two-factor authentication.
  • Data masking: Data masking obscures sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), while allowing data scientists to work with the data. This can be useful for allowing data scientists to work with actual data while protecting individuals' privacy.
  • Data anonymization: Data anonymization is the process of removing or…

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Eliud Nduati
Eliud Nduati

Written by Eliud Nduati

Data Science | Data &AI Governance

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