- Introduction
- Basic Security Principles
- Data Management: Determining and Maintaining Ownership
- Data Governance Policies
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Data Ownership
- Data Custodians
- Data Documentation and Organization
- Data Warehousing
- Data Mining
- Knowledge Management
- Data Standards
- Data Lifecycle Control
- Data Audits
- Data Storage and Archiving
- Data Security, Protection, Sharing, and Dissemination
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Information Handling Requirements
- Record Retention and Destruction
- Data Remanence and Decommissioning
- Classifying Information and Supporting Asset Classification
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Data Ownership
Every data object within an organization must have an owner. Any object without a data owner will be left unprotected. The process of assigning a data owner and set of controls to information is known as information lifecycle management (ILM). ILM is the science of creating and using policies for effective information management. ILM includes every phase of a data object, from its creation to its end. ILM applies to any and all information assets.
ILM is focused on fixed content or static data. While data may not stay in a fixed format throughout its lifecycle, there are times when it is static. For example, after this book has been published, it will stay in a fixed format until the next edition is released.
For the purposes of business records, the lifecycle process includes five phases:
Creation and receipt
Distribution
Use
Maintenance
Disposition