You’ll gain practical tools to classify, store, and dispose of sensitive information, tackle real-world risks related to privacy and cybersecurity, and integrate governance strategies into your day-to-day operations. Whether you manage data assets, systems, or processes, this course equips you to lead with accountability and confidence.

By the end of this RECTUS course, participants should be able to:

1. Understand how data and information can be managed more efficiently and effectively within organizations to tackle privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity threats and risks
2. Develop data governance frameworks to ensure data privacy and integrity
3. Take adequate steps to perform the required audits on data privacy protection
4. Recognize data governance controls, policies, and strategies to capture, manage, and securely dispose of business data and records
5. Develop action plans to manage information compliance, audits, legislation, and regulations through a review of information and information management controls
6. Set up and implement a data governance project, including addressing roles and responsibilities, risk management, and improving business processes
7. Manage data to international best practices, such as ISACA, ISO 8000, ISO 27001, and GDPR

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies
• Videos and General Discussions

Day 1

Introduction to Data Governance and Management

• Definition and significance of data governance and compliance management
• Understanding data governance and compliance management principles
• Distinguishing between structured and unstructured data
• Explaining the key phases of data lifecycle management:
• Data Creation
• Data Storage
• Data Sharing and Usage
• Data Archival
• Data Disposal
• Identifying essential skills and responsibilities in data management
• Discussing obstacles in data governance and their typical solutions

Day 2

Data Management Standards and Regulations

• Overview of data management standards and compliance
• Understanding the ISACA Auditing Standards for information systems
• Exploring ISO 8000: Information and Data Quality Standard
• Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Examining ISO data security standards:
• ISO 27001: Information security management
• Understanding cybersecurity and its role in data management

Day 3

Data Analysis, Modeling, and Reporting

• Discussing the uses of data analysis and modeling for data governance:
• Developing and implementing a data governance framework
• Monitor compliance with policies
• Exploring data analysis and modeling techniques and tools
• Understanding Business Intelligence (BI) reporting requirements
• Methods and applications of data mining
• Best practices for developing and managing reports
• Understanding business process modeling and data flow diagrams

Day 4

Data Governance IT Solutions

• Overview of enterprise content management systems
• Best practices and tools for document and records management
• Steps of data dictionary development
• Exploring data analysis and data mining techniques and tools
• Understanding databases and indexing strategies
• Methods for data archiving and long-term preservation

Day 5

Establishing Data Governance Framework

• Defining the essential components of the data governance framework
• Steps of designing the data governance framework and policies
• Guidelines for creating data lifecycle management procedures
• Understanding data stewardship and accountability
• Best practices and tools for improving data governance
• Course evaluation and feedback

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.