Disinformation - Risk Management

The Value of Big Data

Robin Basham, Director Integrated Audit, Ellie Mae, Inc. CISA, CISSP, CGEIT, CRISC, M.Ed., M.IT, VRP, CRP, HISP, Prepared for ISACA SV and IMA Palo Alto IN 2012, with reference to “Infonomics: The Practice of Information Economics” Doug Laney and “Big data for the Masses The Unique Challenge of Big Data Integration” A Talend White Paper. File this research under I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO

AGENDA

The characteristics of Big Data – It’s just data

• ◦Limits and Benefits in use
• ◦Why we use Big Data
• ◦How we use Big Data
• Structured v. Unstructured Data
• ◦Web 3.0 (They got a lot right in 2009)
• ◦So, is it big or just more BI?
• Overview of new technologies
• ◦Hiring these skills and creating these skills
• ◦Simply, what they do, how they fit into any solution
• ◦Complexity and interpretation risk, you get what you pay for

Is Social Data on the Balance Sheet?

• ◦Risks in using social data
• ◦Problems caused by investing in social data
• ◦Gartner guidance to question data on the balance sheet
• As Director, Integrated Audit at Ellie Mae is accountable to creating and using a GRC program, conducting SOX, SOC, ISMS and various program-specific audits including and FDIC examination. 
  
  As the creator of Facilitated Compliance Management Software (4Point GRC), and founder of EnterpriseGRC Solutions and Phoenix Business and Systems Process, Inc.
  -ISACA SV Conference Director, an ITPreneurs partner, and board advisor for Holistic Information Security Practitioners provides Cloud Security & Virtualization Controls Management training in the San Francisco and Bay Area.  She’s known for successful GRC implementations, supplying overall design, development, and training to companies ranging from start-up to fortune five hundred. Past president of the Association of Certified Green Technology Auditors, ACGTA, a frequent committee contributor to the ISACA Silicon Valley Chapter and liaison to the ITSMF SV chapter, as well as the frequent participant in Cloud Security Alliance local chapter. EnterpriseGRC Solutions is recently added to the Cloud Credential Council and is named to the certification committee of The Holistic Information Security Practitioner Institute (HISPI). EnterpriseGRC Solutions® is an active sponsor of Information Systems Audit and Control Association, ISACA®, listed as a corporate sponsor and many times CobiT® trainer for the ITGI. Visit http://enterprisegrc.com

Robin Basham, M. ED, M.IT, CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, ACC, CRP, VRP, and HISP, Director Integrated Audit, Ellie Mae, Inc., CEO founder EnterpriseGRC Solutions Inc.®