Data Security, Governance, and Lifecycle Management

Learn how to protect enterprise data, strengthen data governance, and manage information securely throughout its lifecycle. This course explores data security, governance frameworks, and lifecycle management strategies that help organizations balance data protection, accessibility, compliance, and storage costs. Designed for data engineers, database administrators, security analysts, data stewards, and IT professionals, the course covers encryption, identity and access management (IAM), zero trust security, SIEM, ransomware defenses, and incident response. You'll examine data governance roles, enterprise policies, data quality standards, metadata management, business glossaries, data lineage, access auditing, and data classification to support accountability and consistent data use. Explore data-in-use protection, secure data sharing, legal holds, e-discovery, retention policies, lifecycle monitoring, backup coordination, disaster recovery, archiving, and secure data destruction. By the end of the course, you'll be able to evaluate security controls, assess governance practices, analyze data lifecycle strategies, and recommend approaches that balance risk, accessibility, and operational costs. What makes this course distinctive is its integrated approach to enterprise data security, governance, and lifecycle management, connecting technical safeguards with business accountability and responsible data handling.