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Leveraging Snowflake’s native data governance capabilities to simplify and automate data control and protection for customers

Credentialed access threats continue to be one of the top drivers of sensitive data breaches. Be prepared to spot and stop abnormal data requests before they start.

Data governance has never been more confusing or bewildering or exciting. With that in mind, we’ve gathered a few resources to address some of the thought-provoking discussions we had at DGIQ 2021.

Consider Amazon’s outage a wakeup call. Is your resiliency planning prepared to protect your modern data architecture from a less-than-disastrous disruption?

The fourth of ALTR’s predictions for the 2022 data governance landscape: All the activity around sensitive data will garner increased attention from regulators leading to data literacy becoming a board-level priority and eventually a federal data privacy law on the level of Sarbanes-Oxley.

At DGIQ this year, we’re excited to learn more about the governance standards that are firming up, along with the trends we can expect going into 2022. Here are some of the presentations we’re particularly looking forward to.

The third of ALTR’s predictions for the 2022 data governance landscape: The increased focus on and utilization of data leads to the elevation of the chief data officer and the unlocking of massive business value.

The consolidated data pool in Cloud platforms will become an even more attractive target for “hackers,” and at the same time the growth in data sharing increases the credentialed access threat by an order of magnitude.

The first of ALTR’s predictions for the data governance landscape in the year to come. The ability to securely share sensitive data easily from the cloud will enable increased data sharing and increased insights.

See ALTR’s 3 risk-based models for using data tokenization on your path to the cloud data warehouse.

3 reasons tokenization is better than encryption or anonymization for cloud data security.

ALTR helps companies protect sensitive data so you can reach your business analytics objectives

In just seven months since we launched our cloud-native integration with Snowflake, the work we put into developing our Snowflake practice has resulted in ALTR attaining Premier Partner status in the Snowflake Partner Network.

4 steps online retailers should take to make sure customer data stays safe and secure this holiday season.

If CISOs want to get ahead of business priorities, bad actors, and regulatory requirements, they need to shift data-centric security that controls, protects and minimizes risk to data—wherever it is.

Low-code, no-code solutions let anyone control and protect data so you can more quickly overcome regulatory roadblocks stopping you from being a “data company”

What if controlling and protecting your data could be free, easy and in some cases, more powerful? See why doing it with ALTR Free is better.

Boost your value from Snowflake more quickly by embracing ALTR complete data control and protection right from the start

ALTR is democratizing data governance by making it quick, easy, accessible, and now free with Snowflake so everyone can control and protect their data

The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions report shines a light on the Data Intelligence/Governance space

See how we’ve solved unique customer challenges with the combined power of Snowflake’s native capabilities and ALTR’s advanced data governance and security solutions.

Universities are on the leading edge of utilizing data for insight and improvement but need ALTR’s unified data governance to protect privacy and stay compliant

Easily and safely get the power of the cloud with Snowflake + ALTR’s “secure cloud data warehouse-in-a-box”

Utilizing data in this new age requires doing so safely by protecting sensitive information from risk with proper governance and security.

See who’s consuming what data, where, when, why and how much so you can make better decisions for your business

4 ways retailers can prioritize customer privacy to build trust, strengthen customer relationships, and reduce risk by safeguarding personal data

We’ve helped companies address some unique data governance and security use cases on Snowflake. See if your company is facing any of the same challenges and how we can help.

If you’re using a Tableau service account to let your users access Snowflake data, you may not be able to see what data users are accessing or govern them individually. ALTR can help.

When you know why data is being used, you can more easily create purposed-based access control policies that custom-fit your organization, are simpler to automate, and reduce risk.

Traditional data governance without security puts your company and your data at risk. A complete data governance solution must include security.

ALTR’s data classification support connects the broader data ecosystem together with a unified understanding of sensitive data.

The healthcare industry needs a modern data governance and security solution in order to fully utilize data for innovation and patient care

ALTR's SaaS-based combination of data governance and data security provides a check on the power of platform admins (and their credentials) and helps keep data safe.

With ALTR and DataSwitch, customers can easily modernize their data architecture, migrate sensitive data to cloud data platforms safely, and share data while ensuring privacy and security.

Congratulations to Snowflake on extending its leadership in the cloud data platform ecosystem with the launch of Snowpark and Java UDFs

Join our new weekly ALTR LinkedIn livestream covering all things data

Making data available across the company can lead to improved results but many companies struggle with how to make data accessible, swiftly and safely

Policy implementation is moving to data governance, with automation allowing for greater effectiveness and efficiency across the process.

2021 Verizon Breach Report again lists stolen credentials as one of the top threats. If we’re not going to stop this, how can we protect our data?

Our personal data is only becoming more valuable (and vulnerable), and we should be protecting even more than we do PCI data

OneTrust Offering Manager Sam Gillespie shares his thoughts on how data use and data regulations are creating challenges for companies.

Okay, you can, but today’s cloud ecosystem delivers better options to secure your data. You can have the hands-on control over your data you want – because it is your data.

Data governance and security can end up orphaned when “everyone” is responsible. That means it needs to be simple, easy and effective for everyone.

ALTR’s partnership with OneTrust allows tighter integration of governance, data, and security teams and closes the gap between policy creation and security enforcement.

ALTR CTO and co-founder James Beecham chats about some data-related themes with Angelbeat's Ron Gerber in preparation for this summer's data event.

Is it time to rethink your data security strategy?

Best practices for securing sensitive data in the cloud

Highlights from Q2's customer journey with ALTR. They chose ALTR for proprietary tokenization as a service and our shared belief that you should treat your sensitive data how your treat your money.

It's widely accepted that an organization must make trade-offs between offensive and defensive data strategies because there are limited resources; we disagree.

How to protect your most valuable asset: your data

What it means to apply IAM principles to the data cloud

Part two of this two-part series discusses solutions for implementing the best data governance and security architecture for your business.

In part one of this two-part series, we address the challenges of moving your sensitive data to the cloud.

Hear from an expert on the best (and worst) practices for turning your business into a data-driven organization.

ALTR + Snowflake. Building out your focus on data, and doing so safely, has never been so simple. Try it for yourself.

Learn how to safely move sensitive workloads to the cloud and bring more value to your business.

Why credentialed threats are on the rise, and how you can stop it by using a password manager

How to Prevent Credentialed Data Breaches by Extending Zero Trust to the SQL Layer

A recap of ALTR's latest roundtable with CISOs and IT decision makers

Discover how data consumption governance provides companies with the tools to securely and confidently move forward as the world enters a new normal.

The abrupt shift to remote work due to the pandemic has caused a lot of new security risks and organizations are struggling to keep up. Find out how to protect your sensitive data in this new remote world.

ALTR VP of Channels and Alliances answers several frequently asked questions about the new ALTR Partner Program

It can be lonely living in a nursing home, and even more so during the coronavirus epidemic. Could you help out with a smartphone donation?

Data security as a service (DSaaS) improves privacy and compliance for cloud data warehouses through query-level data access governance.

To mitigate the risks of enterprise software, companies should give responsibility for data security to application owners, and empower them accordingly.

Use data security as a service (DSaaS) to bring scalable data governance and greater observability to your cloud data warehouse, without degrading performance.

ALTR's data security as a service (DSaaS) platform is a finalist for the Best of FinXTech Awards, in the category “Best Solution for Protecting a Bank.”

What can you do to comply with the CCPA and protect your assets and reputation? Learn more about CCPA regulations and the best ways to get compliant.

We recently hosted a roundtable around Data, Security and Visibility: How to Minimize Risk in a Time of Rapid Business Change. Here's what we learned.

Find out why it’s so hard to protect data and best practices to covering it up.

You are responsible for keeping your customer’s data safe. Regulations like HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR only enforce or reinforce the fact that you should have control over the specific fields that specific users can see and how much.

Stolen or guessed credentials is one of the top ways that criminals get in. When they enter this way they bypass the Identity Access Tool in place and walk right through the front door. Find out how Data Security as a Service offers the ultimate failsafe for sensitive enterprise data.

Key Takeaways from Gartner Risk & Security Summit

Former counterterrorism agent for the U.S. State Department and leader of many high profile international investigations, Fred Burton, answers the tough questions about the evolution of cybersecurity and gives advice on how to protect your most sensitive asset.

Find best practices and thought leadership from top security, privacy and technical professionals.