From the course: Privacy and Compliance in the Age of GenAI: Data Governance, Classification, and Inventory
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What is data inventory?
From the course: Privacy and Compliance in the Age of GenAI: Data Governance, Classification, and Inventory
What is data inventory?
- [Instructor] Data inventory is exactly what it sounds like. It is a categorization or inventory of all the data across all your storage systems. This image gives you a sense of what data inventory entails. Think of it this way, conducting an inventory of your data is like starting with a messy and mixed sack of books and trying to arrange them in a library. The goal is to end up with a collection of books that is searchable and therefore usable. There are additional intricacies to consider when you inventory your data from a technical standpoint. The most effective way to meaningfully inventory your data is to tag it such that you will not only know what the data is, but also the risk that data carries. The good news is that you can use the data classification exercise we just completed as a starting point for the data tagging process. In order for you to be able to use the classification to tag data in your systems, you should establish very clear criteria on how to structure these…
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