Data Steward Foundations

Learn how data stewardship programs build business value by ensuring data quality, protecting data integrity, and maintaining security and regulatory compliance.

Introduction

• Data stewardship
• What you need to know

1. Data Stewardship Roles

• What is data stewardship?
• Exploring data stewardship roles
• Qualities of a good data steward
• Data stewardship responsibilities
• Obtaining senior leadership support

2. Maintaining Data Quality

• Implementing master data management
• Developing data definitions
• Protecting data quality
• Validating data quality
• Promoting data reuse

3. Protecting Data Security

• Goals of information security
• Preserving data confidentiality
• Protecting data integrity
• Maintaining data availability
• Identification, authentication, and authorization
• Discretionary access controls
• Access control lists
• Role-based access control
• Managing the data lifecycle
• Generative AI

4. Preserving Individual Privacy

• Privacy program development
• Generally accepted privacy principles
• Data anonymization
• Data obfuscation

5. Regulatory Compliance

• Today's regulatory landscape
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
• Data breach notification laws
• International data transfers

6. Getting Started

• Data inventory
• Entity-relationship diagrams
• Data classification
• Interviewing key employees
• Following data flows
• Data sharing and transfers

Conclusion

• Continuing your studies