ALTR Press Room

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.