In the last few years since the banking catastrophe of 2008, we have seen many organizations across different vertical industries introducing additional controls and accountability into their management practices to improve governance and mitigate risk. A key part of of improving governance, mitigating risk and remaining compliant is associated with getting control of information with the enterprise. The term given to this practice is information governance. Information governance describes the overall management and control of information throughout the entire organization.
This paper looks at the information protection problem, the requirements it imposes and how one vendor, IBM, is addressing these requirements on System Z platform.
