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How to shape the data classification process

How to shape the data classification process

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How to shape the data classification process

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- [Instructor] Let's discuss how to shape an end-to-end data classification process that you can deploy and adapt in your company. In modern businesses, data classification is typically the outcome of detailed investigations and negotiations. The key players include privacy legal, privacy engineers, security, engineering, product management, data scientists, et cetera. Although privacy is seen widely as a legal area, it would be a huge mistake to only let the legal team drive this classification process. The lawyers may take an overly defensive approach by applying the law without business context or may give engineers too much of a free hand believing in their own ability to win in court. Either approach is suboptimal. Here is how I've run the classification process at three different companies, all of which had very different cultures. First, I worked with privacy legal to get a sense of how they would classify data.…

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