Developing Effective Data Governance For The Internet of Things

The advent of the “Internet of Things” has added a dense and challenging layer of complexity to manufacturing a wide variety of products. Companies in more and more industries need to fully understand what types of data they generate and collect, “what terminologies and coding languages are being transmitted by their partners, and how their internal systems are set up to accept and analyze these different forms of data,” writes David Katz in a Today’s General Counsel article. This entire issue, he says, should be understood as a governance problem that requires a well thought out institutional infrastructure. The first step is the establishment of a data governance committee, one that includes representatives from the information technology, communications/marketing and legal departments. Many companies would also benefit from an independent security audit by a third-party security company.