An online seminar on Database Governance was given by Martin Kuppinger and Roxana Bradescu. Martin Kuppinger is the Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Roxana Bradescu is the Director at Database Security Product Marketing, Oracle.

Database Governance is a core element of Information Governance. It is about defining controls and policies to adequately protect information in databases and the flow of this information. Like any approach to governance, Database Governance is a mix of organization and supporting technology, to define controls and to make them effective.

This online seminar given by KuppingerCole´s Principal Analyst Martin Kuppinger, which for the first time ever, introduced the concept of Database Governance, the reasons why you should do that and the connection to Governance initiatives as well as Database Security technologies. He discussed the areas where new conceptual and technical approaches are required.

Roxana Bradescu of Oracle then presented practical approaches to make Database Governance work today – to enhance the level of protection of valuable information assets.

The projection of this seminar took place on Tuesday, March 14, at 4:00 p.m. at the auditorium Jean B. El Hawa at the Faculty of Sciences.