Security and Governance Overview
As we have explored throughout this book, Microsoft Fabric is all about driving insights through data. There is another side of analytics that must be carefully considered: security and governance. These topics don’t have eye-catching dashboards that will be displayed during board meetings or often land as the main topic of a keynote at major international conferences, but they are vital to the success of any organization. If data loss is the worst thing that can happen, a data leak is the second. No one wants to be responsible for drafting the communication telling customers that their data was part of a breach, that it could end up being sold online, and that they should change their passwords just to be safe any more than they want to have to answer to leadership about how the sales numbers were accessed or that an analyst somehow was given access to modify data that drives the annual report sent to investors.
As data architectures and...