Summary

In this chapter, we learned about data governance. We started with a general understanding of data governance, where there are many aspects of data governance. To simplify it, we classified these aspects into three pillars: Usability, Security, and Accountability. Using these pillars, we then drill down deeper to understand the principles, the tools, and the practice of implementing them.

To better understand data usability, we learned that we need to make sure the data products that we have created are easy to use, which includes making the data easy to find and easy to understand. We then learn how to use Dataplex search and metadata tagging to support the requirements.

We then moved on to data security, which consists of two main parts, data encryption and data protection. We learned how to manage access control in BigQuery up to the column level using taxonomy and data policies. We also learned how to use SDP to find the sensitive data in our datasets.

Then we...