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When Using & Safeguarding Mass Amounts of Captured Data From Facility Monitoring Devices and Environments, Make it Meaningful

Organizations deploying facility monitoring devices are generating massive volumes of data that require structured approaches to extract actionable insights. The article addresses the dual challenge of making captured data meaningful for operational decisions while implementing robust privacy and security safeguards. Balancing data utility with governance is increasingly critical in engineering and construction environments.

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Massive volumes of facility monitoring data are only valuable when transformed into actionable, meaningful insights.

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Privacy protections and data governance must be built into facility data strategies from the outset.

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Organizations need clear frameworks to manage, interpret, and act on data collected from building and facility environments.

One of the many topics of ISC West 2024 was how the industry could overcome the strategic challenge of managing and safeguarding the massive amounts of data collected from facility monitoring devices. Cathal Walsh, the Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Guidepost Solutions, engages deeply with this issue and offered insights on refining data relevance and maintaining privacy during a recent Experts Talk conversation on balancing physical and digital technology in security.

"So there's certainly a lot of challenges in trying to make the data more meaningful for the client and the customer and to be able to zone in and specify exactly what that data is, why we want to keep it, what's the business purpose for keeping it, and how long it needs to be maintained," Walsh said.

There's certainly a lot of challenges in trying to make the data more meaningful for the client and the customer and to be able to zone in and specify exactly what that data is, why we want to keep it, what's the business purpose for keeping it, and how long it needs to be maintained.
— Cathal Walsh, Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Guidepost Solutions

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So the initial requests, I could think couple years ago was they wanna capture everything. And now it's almost two inch data. And what do we do with this data? Even from a privacy perspective, like, how long are we supposed to hold on to this data for, and how much of it goes into a data lake, and what are we supposed to do with the data? Is it a golden source of information? And, you know, the three of us might have the same information. Who needs but who needs to save it? So so there's certainly a lot of challenges that and trying to make the data to your point more meaningful for the client and the customer and to be able to zone in and specify exactly what that data is, why we wanna keep it, what's the business purpose for keeping it, and how long it needs to be maintained for. Something we certainly have to work through with the privacy officers, as well as part of the the overall enterprise corporation.

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