Data About Data

April 18, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Data About Data

Metadata is the breadcrumbs we leave behind on photos, files, documents, etc. that tells us about the content, where it was created, and where we can find it again.

Speaking at The Open Group conference in Sydney recently, Boeing information security chief strategist Stephen Whitlock told delegates that if more digital data was labeled, it would be easier to secure.  “What we are talking about is a shift from discretionary access control system to mandatory access control. If you apply metadata to the data and have a set of policies, the system decides the access,” he said.

This is true. And it involves standards, rules, and protocols to make it successful. Computer World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Boeing backs metadata for information security.”

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.