Organizations learned a valuable lesson in 2023: It isn’t sufficient to rely on securing data once it has landed in a cloud data warehouse or analytical store. As a result, data owners are highly motivated to explore technologies in 2024 that can protect data from the moment it begins its journey in the source systems. From […]
What Is Sensitive Data Exposure and How Can It Be Avoided?
Organizations nowadays process tons of consumer data every day. This data ranges from the standard – names, email addresses, etc. – to personally identifiable information, like social security numbers and banking credentials. And while this type of data is an asset, especially for businesses, accidentally revealing it and causing sensitive data exposure can be very […]
The Ongoing Struggle to Keep Sensitive Data Secure: What Lies Ahead in 2023
Ask any data or security professional and chances are they will say that the growing number of global threats combined with the increasing demand by consumers to understand how their data is being used, stored, and accessed has made their job extremely stressful. Running sensitive workloads in the cloud has exacerbated the problem and continues […]
4 Things to Know About Data Security in 2023
Data security is an issue that faces every organization that uses or stores sensitive data. Even a minor data breach can expose a business to crippling financial penalties from regulators, civil action by aggrieved data owners, and irreversible corporate reputation damage. As 2023 approaches, changes in the workplace, geopolitical factors, changing requirements by insurance providers, […]
What Is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a distributed database and storage devices for the database are not all connected to a common processor. “A blockchain or distributed ledger,” as Gartner describes, “is a mechanism for adding trust in an untrusted environment.” Blockchain’s special capabilities in cryptography lead to this increased trust as a medium. Each transaction has a record. […]
Five Ways to Future-Proof Your Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Deepak Gupta. It is always a challenging effort to anticipate the direction data privacy is going. There is an ever-growing need for companies to future-proof data privacy and safeguard sensitive information. With regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impacting full force, companies now better protect sensitive data […]
Don’t Forget Content in Your Data Privacy Strategy
Click to learn more about author Kyle McNabb. Let’s level-set: Data privacy regulations like the GDPR and CCPA are the tip of the iceberg, and enterprises need to start addressing privacy compliance and its related challenges immediately. Wait – don’t click away from this article. I promise it won’t be beating the dead horse of […]
The Fundamentals of Data Anonymization and Protection
Click to learn more about author David Balaban. Data anonymization is a process aimed at eliminating personally identifiable clues so that it’s impracticable, or at least very challenging, to attribute this information to a specific individual. In this regard, the terms “de-identification” and “anonymization” denote virtually the same concept and may be used interchangeably. The […]
Immuta Unlocks The Cloud for Sensitive Data Analytics
A new press release states, “Immuta, the automated data governance company, today announced native support for Snowflake, along with new privacy and security automation capabilities, that help organizations fully leverage cloud-based data analytics and data sharing — even on their most sensitive data sets. Enhancements to the Immuta platform include k-anonymization, the latest addition to […]
Okera Delivers Industry’s First Real-Time Actionable Insights into Data Lakes
According to a new press release, “Okera, a leading active data management platform that enables companies to discover, audit, and protect data at scale, today announced Okera Spotlight for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, the first and only solution to provide full visibility with real-time and continuous audit of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) […]