// THREAT DETECTION AND DATA PRIVACY TERM
Data Stewardship
Data stewardship is the responsibility for managing an organization's data assets to ensure high quality, security, and proper usage throughout the data's lifecycle. A data steward is an individual tasked with overseeing a specific set of data, like customer or financial records.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Data stewardship is a critical component of a data governance framework, assigning accountability to individuals (data stewards) for the management of specific data domains. This role oversees the entire data lifecycle, ensuring data quality, metadata management, policy compliance, access control, and adherence to privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
BACKGROUND
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that comprises private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information services and resources, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, discussion groups, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing.
READ MORE ON WIKIPEDIASYNONYMS & ALIASES
- data custodianship
- information stewardship
- data asset management
- data governance
- data ownership
- data trustee
USAGE NOTE
Data stewardship is typically a formal, assigned role focused on the business context and rules for a data asset, distinct from the IT role of a data custodian who manages the technical storage and infrastructure.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Data Stewardship.
Develops data integration and analysis platforms like Gotham, used extensively by defense and intelligence agencies to manage and analyze massive, sensitive datasets while enforcing granular access controls and data governance policies.
Provides a data security platform that automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data, manages permissions, and detects threats. Its technology is crucial for stewarding unstructured data by ensuring only the right people have access to it.
Specializes in cybersecurity solutions, including Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology that is a core component of data stewardship. Their platform enforces policies on data in use, in motion, and at rest to prevent unauthorized exfiltration.
Offers Microsoft Purview, a unified data governance solution available in its Azure Government cloud. It helps agencies classify, manage, and protect sensitive data across their entire digital estate, a foundational technology for data stewardship.
A major defense contractor that develops and integrates secure data management and intelligence analysis systems. Their solutions embed data stewardship principles to protect mission-critical information for military and government clients.
Provides a Data Intelligence platform used by enterprises and government agencies to create a comprehensive catalog of their data assets. This technology enables data stewards to define policies, track lineage, and ensure data quality and compliance.
Develops a data intelligence platform that uses AI for automated data discovery, classification, and cataloging. This helps security and data governance teams to inventory and manage sensitive and critical data, which is a prerequisite for effective stewardship.
A not-for-profit organization operating federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). MITRE develops cybersecurity frameworks, architectures, and prototype technologies for government sponsors to ensure secure and effective data management and stewardship.