Steve Touw

Why Internal Data Marketplace Adoption Is Growing Faster Than Ever

The 10 Commandments of an Internal Data Marketplace

Like most data initiatives, data marketplaces are meant to deliver value. But unlike those other initiatives, data marketplaces have an edge – they increase the potential of the entire business by clearly defining the roles, rules, and capabilities that lead to success. To truly maximize the value that data marketplaces...

Why a Data Marketplace and Catalog Are Required to Fuel Collaboration and Insights

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,...

Immuta Introduces Multi-Layered Security for RAG-Based GenAI

Social vs. Technical: Leaders Weigh in on Data Mesh Challenges

Immuta CTO and Co-Founder Steve Touw sat down with Paul Rankin, Head of Data Management Platforms at Roche, and Sanjeev Mohan, Principal at SanjMo, for an in-depth discussion about data mesh architectures. Below is an edited transcript from a portion of their conversation. To listen to the full recording, click here. Steve Touw: This...

Moving from Legacy BI Extracts to Modern Data Security & Engineering

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...

Why Data Monitoring is Key to Sensitive Data Protection

According to one 2022 report, 89% of companies claim that their organization is taking a multi-cloud approach to data storage and analysis. This means the data they collect lives in at least two different cloud databases, if not more. The data must be accessible to the variety of tools meant to...

Scaling Secure Data Access with Immuta & Databricks Unity Catalog

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...

What is ABAC? Attribute-Based Access Control 101

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.

GigaOm Report Positions Immuta as the Leader in Data Access Control

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...

Modernizing From an RBAC to ABAC Model: Is It Hard?

The good news is no. The better news is you are already 90% of the way there and probably don’t even know it!

Secure Access to Databricks Without Compromising Performance & Scalability

Immuta vs. Ranger: Research Comparison Finds Immuta’s ABAC Reduces Policy Burden by 75x

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,...

SQL Is Your Data Mesh API

Enabling Third Party Sharing with Databricks Data Sharing

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...

Role-Based Access Control vs. Attribute-Based Access Control

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...

Data-as-a-Service with Databricks Enterprise Cloud Service

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.

Security and Privacy Layers in Snowflake for Highly Sensitive Data

“Over the past few years, data privacy has evolved from ‘nice to have’ to a business imperative and critical boardroom issue,” warns a Cisco benchmarking report. Security and privacy are colliding in the cloud and creating challenges like we’ve never seen before. This is particularly true for organizations making the move...

Differentiating Data Security in the GDPR from Privacy

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — one of the most forward-leaning privacy regulations on the planet — was praised by Tim Cook in a recent speech in the EU because our personal data is “being weaponized against us with military efficiency.” Those are strong words, and frankly, accurate:...

Data Governance Anti-Patterns: The Copy & Paste Data Sharing Method

Anti-patterns are behaviors that take bad problems and lead to even worse solutions.  In the world of data governance, they’re everywhere. Today’s anti-pattern probably isn’t thought of as a “pattern” at all because it feels so obvious, and (on the surface) is too “easy” – you share data by giving...