Speaker: Jean Yang

With legislation like GDPR and CCPA, it has become newly urgent for organizations to understand internal and external data flows. In the push towards compliance, software organizations have been discovering just how difficult it is to maintain an up-to-date picture of data inventory and data flows. A major challenge is that modern software teams are developing and deploying software quickly and in decentralized ways. When each code change can cause data flow changes, building a clear, up-to-date map of data flows becomes more and more elusive. The state of the art (using human processes; catching data as it flows to untrusted locations) leaves gaps.

Understanding software behavior makes up a big part of the compliance gap--and automated techniques can help. In this talk, I discuss just what it could look like to get visibility into data flows and hint at what kinds of solutions could get us there.