August 25, 2014 8:10:27 AM EDT | Blog Who Monitors Your Monitors?

As you maintain compliance, increase security and enact your data governance policies, there is one area that is of utmost importance. Who is minding the store? We hear more and more about data breaches, mostly from outside forces, but what are they utilizing to get as much information as possible?

As you maintain compliance, increase security and enact your data governance policies, there is one area that is of utmost importance. Who is minding the store? We hear more and more about data breaches, mostly from outside forces, but what are they utilizing to get as much information as possible? Sometimes it’s by hacking into the accounts that have access to all of the data.

Having a strong policy for Access Control and Identity Management includes having an ability to monitor, track and verify who has the keys to your castle. Administrator level controls give access to almost all of your information. If one of those accounts gets hacked, the hackers just back-up the truck and take everything. If that access is controlled, then the loss is mitigated.

Perhaps it’s not just external threats you are wary of; if there is internal behavior that is an issue, you need to have the ability to find out quickly what is the issue, where is problem and fix it as soon as possible. Identity and Access Management is a component of any strong Data Governance policy.

How do you monitor your monitors?
Rosario Mastrogiacomo

Written By: Rosario Mastrogiacomo

Rosario Mastrogiacomo is the Vice President of Engineering for SPHERE, where he focuses on solving complex security and infrastructure problems involving the processing and analysis of large data sets to find creative and out-of-box thinking solutions. Rosario has been working as a technology leader for over 25 years at financial organizations such as Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. He has held various senior leadership positions including Global Head of Core Software Engineering, Head of Mac Platform Engineering, Global Head of Windows Engineering, and Windows Support Manager. Rosario has built and managed several teams within these positions, some with multi-million-dollar budgets. For the last eight years at SPHERE, Rosario has built the team and methodologies for the development of SPHEREboard. Rosario holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Baruch College (CUNY).