In the 2024 State of Data Security Report, a vast majority (88%) of data professionals reported that employees at their organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI). But, only 50% said that their organization’s data security strategy is keeping up with AI’s rate of evolution. This exemplifies a growing challenge we’re facing with contemporary...
The concept of the data mesh architecture is widely recognized and often sought after by data teams across a variety of industries. Given its range of promising benefits – including enhanced data democratization and business-driving data products – this should come as no surprise. But with the technical, structural, and organizational overhauls required to...
Over the past several years, the Immuta team has worked closely with product teams at Snowflake and Databricks to ensure that joint customers are able to leverage the full power of their cloud investments, while ensuring their valuable data assets remain secure. We are excited to introduce our newest suite of features that strengthen...
Immuta continues to innovate in partnership with Databricks, and we’re excited to announce the general availability of Immuta’s native integration with Databricks Unity Catalog to secure workloads on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. With this integration, the Immuta Data Security Platform natively orchestrates security and offers the same user experience across the Databricks Lakehouse Platform using...
The modern business is driven by data and AI. Decisions are no longer based on institutional knowledge or gut feel, and they’re not being made solely in the boardroom. Managers and individual contributors are expected to leverage data to make the day-to-day decisions they need to do their jobs, but...
Databricks table ACLs let data engineers programmatically grant and revoke access to tables. With table ACLs enabled, users have no access to data stored in the cluster’s managed tables by default until granted access, thereby improving sensitive data security. With Databricks runtime 3.5 or above, table ACLs allow authorized users...
We are excited to announce that Immuta’s latest product release is here, offering deeper native integrations with Databricks and Snowflake alongside overall performance enhancements. In this blog, we’ll highlight our new key capabilities: Databricks Spark Integration with Unity Catalog – Customers can use Immuta’s Databricks Spark integration to enforce fine-grained access control on clusters in Databricks Unity Catalog-enabled...
Immuta’s latest release is here, and we are excited to share the new features and integrations we’ve been working on: Google BigQuery Native Integration – enables seamless fine-grained access controls without being in the data path Snowflake External OAuth – provides secure delegated access and allows customers who use their own IdP...
For data engineers, the effort required to wrangle access policies grows exponentially as the complexity of data security increases. High table access segmentation necessitates managing a correspondingly large number of roles and grants. Data that is segmented down to the row level, for example, may require a series of transforms or view...
“Databricks is what I think has thrust this community into a whole new stage of cloud compute.” – Matt Carroll, CEO, Immuta At June 2022’s Databricks Data+AI Summit in San Francisco, Immuta had the chance to meet with a range of customers, partners, and other attendees to talk about the next generation...
The data security and privacy space continues to evolve to keep pace with the constantly changing data regulations, an evolving threat landscape, and increasing amounts of data and users with access to that data. Data security and privacy vendors need to be constantly innovating to keep pace with all the aforementioned changes. With...
As data moves among the storage, compute, and analysis layers of a data stack, there is constant need for measures to ensure its security and protect personally identifiable information (PII). This security is often required by law, as is evident through financial regulations like PCI-DSS, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and more. Immuta’s integration with Databricks helps...
With the world of data analytics and governance constantly changing, it is critical for organizations to stay on the cutting edge. The sharing of ideas between innovators and industry leaders help provide a glimpse into the dynamic core of this field, highlighting the trends central to staying competitive both today...
For more than 160 years, Credit Suisse has been providing customers with best-in-class wealth management, investment banking, and financial services. As one of the largest multinational financial firms, technology is critical to the company’s global operations — and with nearly 50,000 employees worldwide, there is a high standard for efficient, adaptable IT...
Data lakes have become essential tools for businesses in the era of Big Data. But keeping those data lakes secure has never been more important as cyberthreats are constantly on the rise. Here’s everything you need to know about data lake security and how Immuta can be an essential partner...
Would you like to monetize your internal data by sharing it externally with third parties? Do you see the power of joining your data with data from other organizations to drive stronger and better insights? The desire to share data with third parties is fueled by the realization that: The...
As a data engineer or architect, your organization’s security and compliance teams look to you for answers about who is accessing your company’s data. But in the wake of data privacy regulations like the CCPA and Europe’s GDPR — not to mention a growing array of other state, federal, and industry rules — requests...
Immuta and Databricks have deepened our strategic partnership and augmented our native product integration by announcing Immuta’s support for Databricks SQL Analytics and deployment on Google Cloud. These are the latest capabilities offered to joint Immuta and Databricks customers, which also include metadata-driven policy authoring, fine-grained and attribute-based access controls, and most recently, expanded access control for R...
The pros and cons of role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) have been well documented and debated. There are even different implementations of ABAC that use static attributes, defeating the intent of safely scaling user adoption. But understanding the delineations between different approaches and soundly implementing one or both...
Imagine this — You’re at the starting line of a road race. The gun goes off and the clock starts ticking. Runners take off — as you bend down to tie your shoes. You don’t have to be a runner to know that this tactic ends in your competitors leaving...
The new Databricks Enterprise Cloud Service architecture provides powerful network security capabilities, however, a lesser known benefit is that it enables Data-as-a-Service.