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In this special guest feature, Doug Wick, Vice President of Product at ALTR, believes that data consumption governance, implemented at the query level to observe and control consumption of sensitive data, could help organizations to take full advantage of the cloud while reducing the associated risks.

It’s widely accepted that limited time and resources force organizations to make trade-offs between offense and defense when implementing their data strategy. With the technological shifts of the last few years, this may no longer be true.

Right now, the whole world of software is opening up again. I can’t emphasize it enough, so I will repeat myself—I’ve listened to thousands of start-up pitches, and I would now say that today a significant majority of them could be launched and gain significant traction with no code tools.

ALTR has integrated its data security-as-a-service (DSaaS) platform with the Snowflake data cloud platform, according to a prepared statement. The integration lets Snowflake users leverage ALTR’s DSaaS platform to detect and respond to abnormal consumption of data, the companies said. That way, Snowflake users can utilize ALTR’s DSaaS capabilities to stop and prevent credentialed data threats.

Enterprises should consider implementing query-level data consumption controls using data security-as-a-service (DSaaS) solutions as cloud data warehouses lack data consumption controls and have inadequate data-loss prevention (DLP) or endpoint protection as they are entirely virtualized.

Entirely new technologies are emerging that take a different approach to data protection. Making it part of the design of any applications that create and use it. Traditional security measures are implemented into the infrastructure that any data uses, like toll booths and barriers on a highway.

To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year Database Trends and Applications magazine presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. These products, platforms, and services range from widely accepted offerings that continue to evolve to meet the needs of their loyal constituents to breakthrough technologies that are in the early stages of adoption.

Hackers are the obvious culprit in data breaches, but they are too often helped by human error. In many ways, this year has been the worst on record. The likes of Marriott International, Estee Lauder, and of course Zoom, have had incidents involving both private and business data.

“As the enterprise embraces the broader market opportunity around the cloud and an increasingly distributed workforce, they need to rethink their entire approach toward data privacy and security,” says James Beecham, CTO, ALTR, in an exclusive interview with ITSecurityWire.

A team is only as good as its coach and practice schedule. It is important to practice situations that are uncomfortable and hard to deal with during the day. The stress of a cyber-incident should not be taken lightly, and there are a lot of lessons from sports and the military that can be carried into your business.

ALTR offers a data security service that continuously operates within the data warehouse at the database driver layer to govern the way in which enterprise data is used and consumed by applications.

Today, organizations seek data-driven insights to advance decision making at all levels. Moreover, a trend toward dig­ital transformation, which was already underway at many organizations, has accelerated since the onset of the global pandemic.

During the COVID-19 era, many companies have become the targets for rogue actors in terms of seeking to exploit digital vulnerabilities. This means that continually assessing the cybersecurity policy and having a back-up plan is of great importance.

When companies franchise sales efforts to include the channel—especially new market entrants—they typically see a marked increase in deal registration.

The ALTR Stackable Margins program opts for a non-traditional approach to the channel by comping resales and referrals that lead to positive outcomes at decisive stages of the sales journey. In addition to deal registration—where all-or-nothing sales margins often see parties waging war over deal credit—partners are rewarded for many types of net-new opportunity identification and referrals.

ALTR, developer of the most advanced data governance and protection technology on the market, has launched a new partner program for SIs and OEMs, as well as small consulting firms and developers that co-sell, refer-sell or implement ALTR Data Security-as-a-Service (DSaaS).

ALTR looks to expand its channel community beyond security VARs and SIs with a new program that compensates partners for identifying and referring net new opportunities.

Given the new normal of so many more people working from home—on top of a pile of evidence showing that productivity and quality of life typically go up with remote work

Organizations are increasingly turning to cloud data warehouses for advanced analytics and data visualizations. Solutions like Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and more provide immediate value with secure and easy access to any data with near-infinite scalability.

The funding was led by a mix of institutional and private sources in the cybersecurity, information technology and financial-services industries.

The pandemic is creating that market opportunity, given all of the security concerns raised by consumers accessing banking and other sensitive data over the internet, Sikora said.

Whether the development project is being outsourced or completely in-house, the misuse of sensitive private data is overwhelmingly common and security requirements are often waived over the needs of the business.

The blind spot for many organizations has to do with their applications and databases. Now you are saying, “Wait just a minute—we test all of our applications and we encrypt all PII.

Jon speaks to James Beecham, Founder & CTO at data security specialist vendor ALTR. We find out what we can learn from taking the full-stack engineer’s perspective on enterprise DevOps.

After working in the cybersecurity industry for the last 15 years, what I find most striking is that, despite all the money spent on cyberdefense, the number of data breaches every year continues to increase

There is a lot of noise in the security space today but most of the technology is focused on reacting to threats after the fact. There are too many examples where customer proprietary data has been exfiltrated in a breach. DB technology, security, and encryption have not changed in over 30 years. The attackers take advantage of this every day.

The problem is that IT, security, and compliance are already behind. As the “Defenders” of the business, they must now apply multiple other third-party products to that application in order to to gain fine-grained control over who accesses it and what data they can access.

Part 2/3 of understanding the top threats to data and how to neutralize risk and privacy exposures

Uncover the top five threats to the data held by banks and financial institutions, and get a fresh perspective on how the industry can make a fundamental shift away from failed perimeter protection

As data breaches continue to threaten brands, reputations and bottom lines, PCI compliance is an indicator that enterprise data security leveraging distributed ledger architecture is no longer just a concept, but is now in the hands of business.

This interview is part of our new Blockchain In Cybersecurity series, where we interview the world's leading thought leaders on the front lines of the intersections between blockchain and cyber security.

The ALTR platform is integrated as a core technology within Q2 TrustView, the companies said. ALTR, for its part, is stated as the developer of the first software solution designed to harness blockchain’s virtually inviolable structure and apply it to data security.

Digital transformation is not a technology trend. Rather, it is a convenience trend. Businesses are changing because customer expectations demand it. Each day, consumers find yet another use for mobile connectivity.

Fertility Database Relies on Blockchain for Security. FRTYL is trying to put families' minds at ease through the use of blockchain for security.

Enterprise Data-Security Platform Is First and Only Blockchain-Based Technology of Its Kind to Attain PCI Dss Compliance

Sikora spoke to Modern Consensus after his SXSW panel appearance about how ALTR is doing and why he believes the company’s technology is going to make waves.

The Banker's Joy Macknight talks to ALTR CEO, David Sikora, about the greatest cybersecurity risk to banks and how ALTR is re-inventing the data-security model with blockchain technology.

With cyber attacks continuously on the rise, key industries are now being forced to leverage new strategies and technologies to ensure that data and assets remain protected.

Healthcare blockchain could solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare, such as compliance, interoperability, and data security issues, according to a recent study by CB Insights.

Since its introduction, blockchain technology has created a tremendous buzz, offering a secure exchange of value without any need for a central authority such as a bank, government or a financial institution.

A transformational new way to secure and ensure the integrity of data has come to healthcare, and it has the potential to impact almost every corner of the industry.

ThirtyK spoke with ALTR about how the blockchain can secure data, the benefits of single-company solutions, and why ALTR makes a point of saying it’s not developing its own coins.

A partnership between Donor Concierge and ALTR will use blockchain technology to secure health data and patient privacy for the FRTYL fertility exchange.

In the data-driven enterprise, myriad types of data have become a new form and flow of currency. Why, then, hasn't the CISO achieved parity with the CFO?

Security leaders have long excelled at mastery of complicated problems. Now they need to learn to manage complex challenges, a shift of largely unappreciated magnitude.

Every year, cybercriminals find more inventive and insidious ways into our systems and their cumulative impact is becoming more and more devastating.

If hackers have breached your network, how do you protect your data? Their answer is to use blockchain as a tool.\n\n

In this interview, David Sikora, CEO at ALTR elaborates on blockchain’s digital truth, why enterprises need to start treating data like they do their money, addressing data breaches in the midst of a digital initiative and stresses the need for a proactive rather than a reactive approach to security.

ALTR emerges amid the rising adoption of the cloud and microservices, native mobile apps and the Internet of Things.

Government Europa speaks to David Sikora, CEO of ALTR, about all things blockchain, including how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe could affect blockchain technology.

Digital trust today has been damaged, both between the different groups of stakeholders tasked with security and between those people and the technology they depend on to run their businesses or accomplish their missions. With novel foundational technologies like blockchain it can be restored.

ALTR has emerged from four years of stealth, with $15 million in private and institutional backing and what is being billed as the first commercial software package that it says “unleashes the security benefits of blockchain.”

After four years in stealth, Altr announced today that it has raised $15 million to build software that uses blockchain technology to provide cybersecurity.