What You Need to Know about Data Governance & Security in Lakehouse | Chap 9

Steps to Protect Your Data in a Lakehouse.

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Introduction

In today’s data-driven world, businesses must understand the different data types to leverage information effectively.

As a data architect, it is essential to understand where all the data is stored, organised, and managed so that it is easily accessible.

What is Data Governance and Data Security?

Data governance is a set of guidelines that consists of standards, rules, and policies.

Data governance consists of various activities like

1. metadata management,
2. follow industry-wise compliance and regulations,
3. Maintaining data quality
4. Tracking data flow from source to target using data lineage methodology.
5. Securing data sharing processes.
6. Assigning access to the right owners for the corresponding data accountability
7. Auditing and monitoring the data platform

Data security helps users define the right access levels to the right data.