Introduction: Why Another Book on Information Governance?

Information governance is not a new discipline; in fact, it has been an acknowledged practice going back to the 1980s. Every 2 to 3 years, there is a renewed interest in information governance due to a new technology or set of government regulations. It has evolved in the past 20 years from multiple areas of the business enterprise. For example, data stewardship and data quality evolved from data management in areas such as data modeling, where the need to define the business and technical metadata is required to understand the optimal design blueprint for the target data model.

The need to redefine how the enterprise’s data is protected is a result of the ever-increasing blur between ...

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