Current and past investments include enterprise security companies Aorato (acquired by Microsoft) and publicly listed Imperva, global services marketplace Fiverr and data governance solutions provider Varonis Systems.
Also, not all enterprise data can go to the cloud, for compliance and data governance reasons.
This figure shows that legal and governance issues represent a clear majority with 73% of concern citations, showing a deep consideration of legal issues such as data location and e-discovery, or governance ones like loss of control over security and data.
For example, marketing departments use a variety of tools to get their jobs done, but are less well versed with issues such as the interdependency of systems and interoperability, data governance, and security, which IT typically has a good handle on.
"In essence, it's a data security and governance solution for unstructured data, and we are approaching that at the repository levels.
Steve Adler, chief information strategist, IBM, New York, USA, @IBM Steve is internationally recognised for his work in open data, data governance, security and privacy.
Beyond the skills gap and AI transformation challenges within large enterprises globally, 2019 will be a critical year for data governance, security and privacy.
This prediction is not as utopian as it might sound – the UK government is investing heavily in adequate data governance and security.
However, it also generates challenges for health data governance and security.
The platform enables clients to perform advanced analytics on data in its native form, visualize all available data for analysis, build new analytics applications, optimize workloads, and apply security and governance to big data.
However data security, privacy, and information governance issues would need to be carefully managed in the development of the platform.
