Privacy What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know

Chapter 14. Managing Access to Data: A Coding Example

Many companies are faced with issues of data governance. Data within an enterprise can be collected from consumers, partners, and other enterprises of all types. Companies are under pressure to not only comply with privacy legislation, but to prove that they are in compliance. Providing physical security is important, but not enough. Adding programmatic security provides additional security, but does not go far enough. Restricting access to data based on a user's role in a way that is inclusive of multiple applications and platforms would be even better. And how about automatic encryption of data based on the category of the data? This is the type of integrated solution that software companies ...