Data's Prime Directive: Navigating Storage, Backup, and Strategic Activation - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Like the Prime Directive in Star Trek - the most important rule or law that must be followed above all others - organizations today require a core set of principles for managing and protecting their most valuable asset: data. Insofar as data is concerned, the prime directive means to find, clean, classify, protect, and contextualize it to mitigate data risks. Oh, and ensure it's backed up properly. Failure to do this could spell disaster. Historically, the absence of this prime directive has had catastrophic consequences. The 2008 financial crisis, for example, was significantly amplified by the widespread reliance on flawed data for risk assessment. Today, with the unprecedented volumes of data generated daily, the potential for similar or even greater failures looms large if proactive, data-centric strategies are not implemented. In this session, Michele Thomas (Managing Director and Co-Founder of TrustedTec) explores practical, actionable strategies for establishing and enforcing your data's prime directive. Join the session to learn: - The critical components of a modern data prime directive for your organization. - How to build strategies for data storage and backup to combat evolving cybersecurity threats. - The cybersecurity and AI challenges that can arise from the exponential growth of data. - How to transform raw data into actionable insights for strategic business advantage. And more... Meet the speaker Michele Thomas is a visionary leader, data evangelist, digital transformation trailblazer, disruptive thinker, savvy strategist, cybersecurity and identity and access management expert, and in the last decade has been a CISO, CIO, and CTO. She has 30+ years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Michele possesses a BA in Public Administration from George Mason University and a Masters in Public Administration from the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University. Michele and her family live in Maryland.