Oracle Tackles Customer Data Sharing

There's a common nightmare haunting CISOs that features a glance at the morning paper, and 72-point banner headlines with the name of their employer and the words "LOST" and "CUSTOMER DATA." There's no question about it: protecting customer and employee data is one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises today. Recently, Oracle took a swing at solving that problem, announcing the Identity Governance Framework, an initiative to develop specifications for sharing identity data across heterogeneous applications.

Problems such as lost data on laptops and identity theft point to the need for overarching standards that govern all the sensitive data squirreled away in data repositories across an enterprise, such as human resources, customer relationship management and custom-built internal applications, he said.