As more capabilities become automated as part of cloud services, we find that our customers are reluctant to give up control over data security. The complexity of managing policies and granting access involves a degree of hands-on management, and customers want to own that responsibility. In the Gartner report, Predicts 2024: IAM and Data...
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...
We’re all familiar with supply chains in the realm of manufacturing. Well, the same concept applies to data management. In data management, there are data supply chains that involve raw inputs from source data systems that go through a number of processing steps and emerge at the end as a...
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,...
Technology has made our world increasingly interconnected and interdependent, and as a result, the need to share data to remain competitive is more important than ever. Yet, despite the competitive advantages associated with data sharing, many organizations still treat it strictly as a data function instead of a business priority. According...
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...
Imagine going to a library in search of a specific book with a piece of information needed to finish an assignment. Did we mention you’re on a deadline? Good luck. This example may seem extreme, but for organizations that don’t have a data catalog, it’s not unfathomable. In either scenario,...