Case Study
Data governance: Principles for securing and managing logs
1 Data governance: Principles for securing and managing logs Best practices for data residency, retention and access control2 About this whitepaper This whitepaper is designed to provide cloud architects and IT leaders guidance for how to meet their data governance requirements with respect to logs data in Google Cloud. We will present an overview of the four stages of the lifecycle of logs and how data governance can be woven into each stage, walk through common requirements, and offer best practices we’ve used with Google Cloud customers to help them meet data governance challenges. In a companion whitepaper, Logs data: A step by step guide for overcoming common compliance challenges, we provide sample solution guides for four of the most common data governance requirements. Da