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CPO and CISO: A Comprehensive Approach to Information

GE CPO Nuala O'Connor Kelly advocates greater CPO/CISO cooperation to place the right value on information assets. (Part of the Security Predictions series.)

By Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor

How long stuff is kept is typically a back-room function of document managers. But it is actually incredibly important when you look at the cost of keeping things, both electronically and on paper. So if it hasn't been a lens through which an organization has been looking at things, I think it's actually a great growth opportunity for folks who have been toiling away in the shadows and doing work but not getting credit to elevate their role and also find some synergies in folks across the room, both in IT and legal.

Here, I think we've found great strength in numbers. Folks are flocking to our vision of a comprehensive approach to information. Right now we're doing a lot of projects around federated search, data cleanup, some real basic human factors. Our end-state vision is a collaborative work space; a collaborative, online, real-time, global environment where GE employees, wherever they are, can get to the right information at the right time. Obviously access control and data control around who gets to what container is important, but also important is the reduction of time to get to the right data point, as well as expulsion of useless information that is weighing us down and muddying the waters of clarity.

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