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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.

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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?

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

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.

Learn how ALTR, an AWS Partner and provider of data security as a service, helped customer Q2 become PCI DSS certified in a fraction of the time it normally takes.

Our personal data is only becoming more valuable (and vulnerable), and it’s past time to get serious about protecting it.

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

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.