Data governance is a complex discipline, and in a large business, it will require support from multiple organization roles. There are four major roles aligned with formal data ownership policies. What are the roles? What is the responsibility of each role? It is important to remember that although one can outsource virtually any service or activity to a third party, one cannot outsource legal accountability for these services or actions. You are ultimately responsible for the services and actions that these third parties take. If they have any access to your data or systems, any security breach in their organization (for example, unauthorized data sharing) is effectively a breach in yours. Issues of security risk awareness, shared