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Data culture is becoming an increasingly important philosophy in the modern enterprise. 

Making data-driven decisions is critical to the success of a company in today’s world, and there really is no better way to do that than ensuring a data culture runs through the firm. 

There are plenty of studies that show a correlation between the maturity of a data culture and the success of a business, including this one from Collibra which states “Organisations with higher levels of maturity across their data culture are likely to realise higher business benefits and performance versus peers.”

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris spoke to Databricks’ Field CTO Robin Sutara at Big Data London 2022 to discuss: 

• Building and maintaining a data culture
• Data culture maturity
• The Women in Data movement

A software supply chain attack is when someone infiltrates your system by attacking a third-party provider or partner with access to your data. 

Recent high-profile supply chain attacks, most notably SolarWinds, has this type of attack into the public eye, and it’s clear that with more suppliers handling sensitive data than ever before, the attack surface of a typical enterprise has been changed dramatically. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Suresh Bhandarkar, Director of Product Solution Architecture at Beyond Identity, to discuss:

• Software supply chain attacks
• Weaknesses in the CI/CD pipeline
• The issue of software code provenance

Beyond Identity cuts through the anonymity of to provide a secure, scalable way for development and GitOps teams to immutably sign and verify the author of every commit. Their author verification API in proves that what you’ve shipped is what your developers actually built—and that nothing else got added.

As data continues becoming a core part of how businesses operate and make decisions, managing data quality has never been so important. 

Poor data quality can hit all enterprise levels hard, from marketers annoying prospects to supply chains becoming unable to automate processes properly.

In this second episode of the three-part EM360 Podcast series with Anomalo on data quality, Elliot Shmukler, Co-Founder and CEO at Anomalo joins Analyst Christina Stathopoulos to discuss:

• The right time for data quality monitoring
• What happens if you wait too long
• Who should be involved

A term used to describe data related to locations on Earth’s surface, spatial data can be used in everything from heat maps and political maps to smaller-scale indoor representations like in hospitals and offices. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst John Santaferraro speaks to Todd Lewis, Founder and CEO of Spatial DNA, to discuss:

• Digital revolution and the challenges it’s produced
• Helping customers overcome complexity 
• The future of spatial data

Spatial DNA is a partner of Safe Software.

Data warehouses are centralised repositories of information that can be repeatedly analysed and utilised to make more informed decisions. 

These are empowered by business analysts and data scientists who use BI tools to act more intelligently at a business level.

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris speaks to Umair Waheed, Head of Product Marketing at Yellowbrick, to discuss:

• Biggest trends in the data warehouse space
• All industries equally going towards the cloud
• Future of data warehouses
• Data warehouses are centralised repositories of information that can be repeatedly analysed and utilised to make more informed decisions. 

As an IT Professional, you know that cyberattacks are ever-increasing, and businesses must do everything they can to ensure they remain protected. 

Organisations across the globe are beginning to implement Zero Trust solutions to protect their files, data, devices, and networks. Zero Trust is a concept that operates on the idea that nothing can be trusted, and everything is a threat until it has been properly verified. This process helps to mitigate and manage new and emerging cyber threats. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris welcomes Ben Jenkins, Director of Cybersecurity at Threatlocker, to discuss:

• What is Zero trust, and why do businesses need it?
• How are cyberattacks evolving?
• Common cyber threats and how to better protect your business against them 

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) systems are a fundamental part of an enterprises identity and access management strategy. 

For companies that need functionalities like role-based access and automated approval, IGA systems can be essential in ensuring that the right people are getting access to the right things. 

Sounds easy enough, but issues with adoption, sponsorship and employee access speak to the fact that plenty of things can derail a deployment. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Rod Simmons, VP of Product Strategy at Omada, about:

• Automating already broken processes
• Disconnect between IGA goals and business goals
• Testing, testing, testing

An information security program is the philosophy and group of practices that companies implement to protect essential business processes, data and assets. 

Building out an effective program not only helps protect key aspects of your business, but also helps to define internal policies and procedures for assessing risk and mitigating future attacks. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris speaks to Carl Leonard, Cybersecurity Strategist for EMEA at Proofpoint, to discuss:

• Data loss and insider threats
• Overcoming challenges before embarking on information protection projects
• Dispelling DLP myths

Data quality monitoring is a process that manages and ensures a high-standard data within an organisation. 

Performed through strategies like automation and full-stack monitoring, companies set their own data quality metrics and KPIs to measure and evaluate it.  

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Christina Stathopoulos speaks to Jeremy Stanley, CTO and Co-founder of Anomalo, to discuss:

• Data quality monitoring in a data reliant market
• Using unsupervised ML
• Changes in the last 5 years

Data governance in the modern world is the managing, utilising and securing of data in enterprise systems, and it’s becoming increasingly more important as organisations face new data privacy regulations as well as the need to make data-driven decisions.

Well-designed data governance programs often include governance teams, steering committees and data stewards. But behind these lie data standards, policies and philosophies that can help businesses handle astounding amounts of data in the right way.

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Christina Stathopoulos speaks to Ramesh Shurma, Founder and CEO at Orion Governance, to discuss:

Current data governance space

Bottom-up vs top-down approaches

Lowering TCO and increasing ROI