Sep 11 2025

CDW Executive SummIT: Why Data Governance Is the Foundation of Data Protection

At the CDW Executive SummIT in Las Vegas, CDW's Aaron McCray, Walt Powell and Dom Daidone and Okta's Jakob Grimm discussed key distinctions between data governance and data protection. Data governance provides the playbook for the ethical, moral, legal and regulatory requirements around your data, while data protection establishes how it will be used and maintained by people in an organization. 

RELATED: Minimum viable data governance lays the groundwork for successful artificial intelligence initiatives.

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Participants

    Aaron McCray, Chief Information Security Officer, CDW

    Walt Powell, Lead Field CISO, CDW

    Jakob Grimm, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Okta

    Dom Daidone, Cybersecurity Solution Strategist, CDW

Video Highlights

  • Traditionally, data governance didn't have a clear ROI for businesses, but artificial intelligence is changing that.
  • Organizations must set clear rules and policies around data usage to avoid "strategic debt."
  • AI tools are making data security and posture management easier, as teams can discover, identify, classify and tag data faster.