Data Ownership: Most companies and organizations have this notion that data governance should be taken care of , by the Information Technology department, because IT owns the system which stores the data. The owner of the data is responsible for providing attributes to the data and answerable to any questions regarding data. The people answerable to these kinds of data are generally the ones involved in defining business rules, data cleaning and consolidation.? Data Stewardship:? Data stewards should be favorably those people who are familiar with the data. It is often seen that there is need to deploy several people, to handle and correct data, whereas a single data steward could have done the same job. Since the data being handled involves organizational level data, it is important that there are governance rules for this process.? If there is some certain rule in the data which causes large data volumes to fail, this rule should be fixed while data cleansing. So it is important to take care of the amount of clean data sent to the stewards, since we are not aware of which rules might trigger what amount of data.? Choice of data stewards is again a difficult selection. Data Security:? Although the master data is data on organization level, but there is some confidentiality level linked to it.? Not every employee has the authorization to view its aspects. Security rules can be applied to the data. The various departments in the organization must set different rules to the data they own. They need to grant permissions to these rules , so that the user can view the data. A large company can have data sourced out of many regions. It is to be ensured that they are responsible to correct only their own data.? Data survivorship: There are some guidelines which are set up by data governance. These rules can often change over hthe time according to new data sources being added. The changes made to the data , are communicated to the organization so that data stewards and users can understand the process. So from a data steward's point of view, it is important to apply security rules to the people who are involved in data handling and correction. This is a result of how data governance and data security can be applied while implementing MDM.? ?