The tension between quickly provisioning data access and maintaining control over it has been growing for at least a decade, but thanks to decentralized architectures, diverse cloud ecosystems, and — most critically — the widespread adoption of AI, it’s now reached a tipping point. Since our inception, Immuta has addressed...
Technologies like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are transforming how organizations apply AI to tackle real-world challenges. By merging generative AI with curated, real-time data retrieval, RAG systems provide accurate, relevant, and actionable results, without the resources needed to build a custom LLM from scratch. However, the data powering these systems is...
Organizations increasingly rely on data lakes to store, manage, and analyze vast amounts of information from various data sources. But building a data lake specifically on AWS allows you to leverage a comprehensive cloud ecosystem with a wide array of services. In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into how to...
Organizations are constantly finding new ways to make their growing datasets work harder for them. Amazon Redshift Spectrum offers a flexible solution, bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses to eliminate unnecessary complexity. By pairing it with Immuta’s robust data governance capabilities, they can move even faster – securely...
Data has become the cornerstone of modern business success, driving everything from customer personalization to inventory management. But more data means more complexity – and organizations need a way to efficiently control access while maintaining compliance, particularly as operations scale. Amazon EMR with Apache Spark gives businesses the tools to...
As AI and other technologies accelerate demand for data and consequently, more users require access to this data to leverage its potential and drive innovation. Leading organizations leverage platforms like Amazon Athena in order to make that data available for analysis. But often, they must navigate the complexity of governing...
One of the most consistent challenges that we have seen when working with large global enterprises is a tendency to treat data catalogs and data marketplaces as the same objective, rather than separate ones. Conflating the two may also explain why data and analytical engineering teams, along with business users,...
With 120 zettabytes of new data generated every day, it’s safe to assume that systems and processes that worked even five years ago are struggling to keep up with the demand for data. But keeping up with new and evolving technologies can be a full-time job. And, it’s clear from...
In the world of data management, not all sensitive data fits neatly into predefined categories. Many organizations deal with unique data types and formats that standard data discovery frameworks fail to recognize. As data protection regulations become more stringent, the ability to identify and manage sensitive data accurately is crucial. However, the...
One of the challenges that many SaaS products face as they mature and move into enterprise markets is a growing demand for private networking. This is because companies may be wary of allowing access to potentially sensitive internal services over the internet – and in our experience with Immuta as...
We are thrilled to announce that Immuta has achieved the prestigious AWS Data and Analytics Competency status. This recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlights our dedication to delivering top-tier data security and analytics solutions for joint customers, and is an exciting next step in our long-standing partnership with AWS. Earning AWS Data and...
We are thrilled to announce that Immuta has been named Snowflake’s Data Cloud Product Data Security Partner of the Year for the second year in a row. This recognition is deeper than the technical aspects of our product integration – it highlights our shared commitment to de-risking our customers’ data and delivering...
Any leading organization will tell you that data isn’t a nice-to-have – it’s table stakes for competing in today’s environment. So, it’s no wonder that many of these companies rely on the Snowflake Data Cloud to power analytics and AI workloads. Since 2018, Immuta has worked product-to-product with Snowflake to develop a...
How much time have you spent sifting through organization-level data trying to find the right data sets for your specific needs? Not to mention that once you find what you’re looking for, you may find yourself waiting for a centralized IT team to approve your access request – which could...
Pushes toward self-service data use, advancements in AI, and the demand for real time, granular data insights have led to a surge in unstructured data volumes and usage. Research shows that 90% of new enterprise data is unstructured, and it is growing at three times the rate of structured data. This begs...
One of the most persistent challenges modern data-driven organizations face is the divide between IT teams and business units. With data ownership largely in one camp and data use in the other, this gap hinders effective data collaboration, resulting in disjointed efforts and missed business opportunities. At the heart of...
In 2020, global spending on cloud data services reached $312 billion. In 2022, Gartner estimates that this number will rise to a staggering $482 billion. This immense increase proves that the migration to and adoption of cloud platforms is the bona fide standard for contemporary information services and analysis. With...
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...
“What data do we have?” Data’s entire life cycle – from collection, to analysis, to insights and business-driving application – begins with this question. Understanding your organization’s data remains critical to effectively using and protecting it, especially as platforms, users, and data sets constantly evolve. But gaining a contextual understanding...
New Year’s is a time for change, for bettering oneself, for taking that first step towards the future. It’s no different at Immuta – we’ve resolved to make our Data Security Platform even better for our customers. And just like our New Year’s fitness goals start with simple habits, our new and improved...
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented surge in the development and democratization of AI technologies. Companies are building proprietary models, while the average person – regardless of technical expertise – has tools like ChatGPT at their fingertips. AI is not just changing the way we work, it’s changing the way our...
A modern analytics environment is typically built to reduce time to data, leaving compliance as an afterthought. Yet, without a compliance-by-design approach, the analytics environment is likely to break in weeks because safeguards like purpose-based access control are missing; data minimization and de-identification techniques are inadequate and data access requests...
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...
In today’s tech-driven world, data security is a paramount concern for every industry. But when sensitive government or educational data is involved, the stakes become even higher. The need to protect this information, ensure citizen and student privacy, and mitigate threats to their data has never been more critical. That’s...
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...
As data breaches and cyber attacks become more common, protecting data privacy is an increasingly important concern for companies that use data to compete. According to Cybercrime Magazine, the total cost of cybercrimes is an estimated $8 trillion, and is expected to climb more than 30% in the next two years....
With cloud data platforms becoming the most common way for companies to store and access data from anywhere, questions about the cloud’s security have been top of mind for leaders in every industry. Skepticism about the security of cloud-based solutions can even delay or prevent organizations from moving workloads to...
Before we can talk about modernizing from a legacy Business Intelligence (BI) extract, we need to answer the questions: why are they used? And what are they? The “why” behind extracts boils down to improved query performance on published dashboards. You can see more details about the “why” for data extracts in...
We are extremely excited to announce that Immuta has achieved Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation, validating our native integration with BigQuery and providing joint customers with confidence in our partnership. As part of the validation process, Google Cloud engineering teams run a series of data integration tests, compare results against benchmarks, work closely...
Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and keeping it secure is of the utmost importance. With the ever-increasing amount of data being generated and shared, organizations are facing more challenging data security threats than ever before. The rise of cyber-attacks, data breaches, and regulatory compliance requirements has made data security a...
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...
With massive amounts of data being generated each day, and an increasing number of people accessing, analyzing, and sharing that data, understanding all data access activity is more than a full-time job. In fact, it can feel downright unmanageable. The good news? With the right tools, you can get the...
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...
As modern data stacks become more complex, data teams need more efficient ways to manage sensitive data. When more data sources are added or more platforms leveraged for storage and analysis, understanding what kind of data lives in your data ecosystem can become increasingly difficult. This difficulty becomes more of...
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...
The ability to efficiently discover data and visualize it in meaningful ways has never been more important. Tools like Tableau allow users to see data in an easily interpretable, shareable way that empowers data-driven decision making. However, with more organizations now collecting, storing, and analyzing sensitive data, the onus is on data...
In the cloud computing era, ensuring data policy is co-created with data is essential. Historically, data access and security policies were an afterthought, leading to sub-optimal implementations. These implementations give rise to confusion, data leaks, and unsustainable maintenance burdens. In order to be effective, organizations need to separate policy from cloud platforms....
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...
I’m excited to announce Immuta’s $100M Series E funding, bringing our total funding to $267M. The funding round includes new investors NightDragon and cloud data leader Snowflake, as well as participation from existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ Growth, IAG, Intel Capital, March Capital, StepStone, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. (read the press...
Governance and security are hot topics in data mesh, as evidenced by the recent webinar I co-presented with Andy Mott at Starburst that landed 350+ registrants, including the who’s who of industry luminaries on the topic. It’s easy to see why – without proper planning, decentralization can become the wild west of data management....
This blog was co-authored with Deepak Nelli, Director of Sales Engineering at Alation. The modern data environment is changing. Cloud data platforms provide data-driven organizations with advanced analytics capabilities alongside much-needed simplicity; yet, greater demand for data, more data consumers and use cases, and a growing body of data use...
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 1,862 data breaches in 2021, exceeding the previous record of 1,506 in 2017. Of these breaches, 83% contained sensitive information that became available to the attackers. The exposure of large swaths of raw data, especially when sensitive, can have dangerous consequences. In...
It’s no surprise that nearly 90% of organizations rely on a multi-cloud strategy to get value from their data. Yet, despite budgets for data management solutions continuing to increase, 57% of data leaders say that “their tools and tech definitely need improvement.” This may indicate a lack of cohesion across cloud platforms, but it...
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) grants or restricts access to data using context-based decisions based on information about the user, the data itself, the intended action, and the environment generally. It’s well-documented that ABAC is the more flexible, scalable access control option when compared to static role-based access control – NIST has formally supported...
There’s a lot of confusion in the market about attribute-based access control (ABAC) and what it actually is. This short blog will use a handy analogy to explain ABAC.
Recently, across the social media spectrum there has been an uptick in government program leaders, technology salespeople, and systems integrators all sharing opinions on how best to deploy new technology quickly, cost effectively, and with the proper architecture to support both short- and long-term federal program goals. Unsurprisingly, there’s little consensus, with...
Immuta is the universal cloud data access control platform that gives data engineering and operations teams the power to automate access control across their entire cloud data infrastructure. By leveraging metadata to build and automatically enforce data access policies at query time, Immuta allows organizations to unlock the full value...
Is it possible to manage a successful business or organization if you’re not successfully managing your data? Data management in business can be perceived as both an essential task and an annoying nuisance. The fact is that if your organization deals with data of any kind, you need a system...
Collecting and analyzing aggregated data is essential in today’s connected world, but are you doing everything necessary to ensure the privacy of the individuals behind that data? Not only is it ethical and moral to take necessary security precautions when dealing with consumer data, but it’s also a legal requirement...
Data access control and governance are central tenets of a strong cloud data strategy. As demand for data grows, so do the number of platforms touting cutting edge access control management capabilities. The data governance landscape is rapidly evolving and data access control – a subset of the overall market...
As data has become one of the most prized resources for companies around the world, two vital imperatives have increasingly butted up against each other in conversations among private companies, consumers, and government regulators — the desire to harness customer data for profit and the need to keep that data...
Data orchestration is the process of bringing together data from various storage locations, combining it in a coherent form, and then making it available for use by an organization’s data analysis and data management tools. This process is usually software-driven, connecting multiple storage systems and allowing your data analysis platforms...
Metadata management is the collection of policies, processes, and software/hardware platforms used to manage and store metadata for your organization’s data assets. The larger and more complex the stockpile of data assets, the more critical proper metadata management is for ensuring that data is usable, secure, and available for individuals...
The role-based access control versus attribute-based access control debate has been going on for decades. Now, as organizations move away from on-prem and Hadoop-era technologies in favor of modern, cloud-based data environments, the differences between the two security approaches are coming into sharper view. A new study from GigaOm comparing the two approaches head-to-head,...
Data leaks are everywhere in the news. Is your company safe and readily able to prove compliance? While advanced security measures have become increasingly important for protecting businesses against data breaches, lost data, or other security threats, one simple and straightforward tool is often overlooked — the data audit trail.
There’s an old adage that all press is good press, but one kind of attention that’s been showered on companies both large and small in recent months is the type that no organization wants — scorn after an inadvertent data leak. While keeping customer data safe from leaks may seem...
Writing or modifying scripts, managing templates, or creating policy for cloud data platforms is historically a manual process. Assuming there is very little maintenance, doing this process once may be sufficient — but that assumption is never realistic. Complicating this further is the need to manually replicate this environment at...
Data masking is one of the most important tasks in data governance. It may seem simple in practice, but getting it right can be the difference between a straightforward path to properly secured data, and a complex, confusing experience that leaves your data exposed to breaches. To add to the...
Data generalization is the process of creating a more broad categorization of data in a database, essentially ‘zooming out’ from the data to create a more general picture of trends or insights it provides. If you have a data set that includes the ages of a group of people, the...
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 companies started moving data to the cloud and separating compute and storage for added efficiency, cost savings, and flexibility, data platforms became more advanced and diverse, introducing new categories for best-of-breed technologies. With data engineering and operations teams now accelerating adoption of more than one cloud data platform, according...
Data de-identification is a form of dynamic data masking that refers to breaking the link between data and the individual with whom the data is initially associated. Essentially, this requires removing or transforming personal identifiers. Once personal identifiers are removed or transformed using the data de-identification process, it is much easier to...
One of the most traditional methods of determining who can and cannot access certain data is a framework known as role-based access control (RBAC). This approach defines specific user roles within a company, then specifies permissions for each individual role. But what if a company needs to go beyond these simple...
A data governance tool can help your organization automate data governance at scale, increase data utilization, and comply with data privacy regulations. In this blog post, we’ll highlight five of the most important features to look for in a data governance tool.
By the time COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic, it was already spreading like wildfire. As healthcare professionals, scientists, and federal agencies tried to understand the nature of the virus and implement appropriate mitigation measures and public health guidelines, it was quickly seeping into all corners of the globe. As...
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...
The terms role-based access control and attribute-based access control are well known, but not necessarily well understood — or well defined, for that matter. If attribute-based access control includes user roles, then what is role-based access control? Where is the line drawn? Fundamentally, these data access control terms — role-based access control and attribute-based access control...
Cloud provider capabilities are evolving faster than ever, and enterprises are taking notice. With all the progressive features, cost savings and labor efficiencies modern cloud data access control platforms offer, why wouldn’t organizations seize the opportunity to accelerate data analytics and derive insights that could give them a competitive edge? Unfortunately, cloud migration doesn’t...