For the first time in five years, the average cost of a data breach fell. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the global average dropped 9% to $4.44 million. The report also ranked encryption among the leading controls for reducing breach costs. However, encryption is not the only way to protect […]
In today’s post, we’ll discuss data literacy and its relevance in the context of GDPR. We start by defining data literacy and giving a brief overview of GDPR. Then we proceed to explain some of the challenges organizations might face when trying to find risk spots in their data. Finally, we give advice on how […]
Enterprises depend on realistic data for development, testing, training, and analytics. The challenge is that production data often contains names, account numbers, financial information, and other sensitive details that should not move freely into non-production environments. IBM Optim Data Privacy addresses that problem by masking sensitive values while preserving enough of the original data’s structure […]
Release managers have to track a lot at once: changes, teams, systems, environment readiness, dependencies, and whether a release is ready for go-live. In large enterprises, that information can be spread across dozens of projects, tools, tickets, and dashboards. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help teams make sense of it faster by summarizing release information, surfacing […]
Data is the word of the 21st century. The demand for data analysis skills has skyrocketed in the past decade. There exists an abundance of data, mostly unstructured, paired with a lack of skilled professionals and effective tools to manage and analyze it. The path to gaining data analysis skills begins with understanding the type […]