data governance

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January 10, 2025

Beyond the Basics: How to Expand Your AWS Lake Formation Investment

Organizations increasingly rely on data lakes to store, manage, and analyze vast amounts of information from various data sources. But building a data lake specifically on AWS allows you to leverage a comprehensive cloud ecosystem with a wide array of services. In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into how to...

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December 17, 2024

How to Drive Business Value with Data Sharing & Governance

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December 2, 2024

How to Maximize Amazon Redshift Spectrum Data with Immuta

Organizations are constantly finding new ways to make their growing datasets work harder for them. Amazon Redshift Spectrum offers a flexible solution, bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses to eliminate unnecessary complexity. By pairing it with Immuta’s robust data governance capabilities, they can move even faster – securely...

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December 2, 2024

Managing Big Data, Simplified: Amazon EMR with Immuta

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business success, driving everything from customer personalization to inventory management. But more data means more complexity – and organizations need a way to efficiently control access while maintaining compliance, particularly as operations scale. Amazon EMR with Apache Spark gives businesses the tools to...

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December 2, 2024

Making Amazon Athena Work Smarter with Immuta

As AI and other technologies accelerate demand for data and consequently, more users require access to this data to leverage its potential and drive innovation. Leading organizations leverage platforms like Amazon Athena in order to make that data available for analysis. But often, they must navigate the complexity of governing...

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October 24, 2024

What To Expect Throughout Your Data Governance Implementation

Standing up a data governance framework is a critical step for any organization. According to reporting from Gartner and Immuta, it topped the list of leaders’ priorities – beating out initiatives related to AI and analytics. But as technology evolves, so does the process of implementing an effective, future-proof data...

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August 13, 2024

Navigating Organizational Change When Implementing a Cloud Data Governance Strategy

The adage that “we are a software company” is quickly becoming “we are a data company.” In today’s world, software is only as good as the data within it – and the ability to deploy it. As the wave of organizations leveraging cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks continues to build, enterprises must...

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July 9, 2024

Why Is Multi-Cloud Networking So Complicated?

One of the challenges that many SaaS products face as they mature and move into enterprise markets is a growing demand for private networking. This is because companies may be wary of allowing access to potentially sensitive internal services over the internet – and in our experience with Immuta as...

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June 11, 2024

How Merck’s Governance Strategy Balances Innovation & Security

Many data teams – especially at large enterprises – fall victim to a difficult paradox: while they generate vast amounts of data across lines of business, actually accessing and using it is incredibly difficult. Take Merck for example, the world’s third largest pharmaceutical company by revenue. Data flowing in from their R&D,...

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May 24, 2024

Combining Data Mesh and Data Fabric for Next-Gen Data Security

While they may be different on a conceptual level, data fabric and data mesh aren’t mutually exclusive concepts. Within the right data strategy, the two frameworks can actually work together, with data fabric providing a unified data access layer for a larger data mesh architecture. The choice of whether it makes sense to leverage...

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May 16, 2024

What the Power Grid Can Teach Us About Data Sharing

British mathematician Clive Humby is credited with coining the phrase “data is the new oil.” Respectfully, this statement no longer rings true – and data sharing is one of the main reasons why. A lot has changed since 2006, when Humby first made this comparison. To put it into perspective, Twitter launched...

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May 16, 2024

Why Collaboration and Controls are Central to Data Risk Management

We operate in a world of risks. Whenever we get behind the wheel of a car, flip a light switch in our home, or enjoy an alcoholic beverage, we are accepting an inherent level of risk associated with each activity. But this doesn’t stop us from doing them. Similarly, cloud data...

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May 9, 2024

Now is the Time for Risk-Aware Data Security & Access Controls

From artificial intelligence and machine learning advancements, to decentralized cloud storage and analysis, and other novel use cases, we’re seeing data innovations happening before our eyes. At the same time, data breaches and noncompliance penalties are increasingly common and costly, and threats to data will only continue to grow. In...

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April 16, 2024

Scaling Secure Data Access Management and Use with Immuta Domains

One of the most persistent challenges modern data-driven organizations face is the divide between IT teams and business units. With data ownership largely in one camp and data use in the other, this gap hinders effective data collaboration, resulting in disjointed efforts and missed business opportunities. At the heart of...

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March 14, 2024

Data Leaders’ Top 4 Security Trends for 2024

It’s easy to talk about trends in absolutes. “This new development will affect jobs across every sector,” and “this new platform is going to be everywhere” – these kinds of blanket statements remove nuances that can be incredibly important when discussing trends. Instead, we should focus on questions like “How...

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March 6, 2024

Enhancing Databricks Unity Catalog for Evolving Data & AI Governance

In the 2024 State of Data Security Report, a vast majority (88%) of data professionals reported that employees at their organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI). But, only 50% said that their organization’s data security strategy is keeping up with AI’s rate of evolution. This exemplifies a growing challenge we’re facing with contemporary...

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January 20, 2024

Immuta & Snowflake Horizon: Integrated Solutions for Data Governance Use Cases

For organizations like Thomson Reuters and Instacart, which rely on Snowflake to execute advanced analytics on complex workloads, the Immuta Data Security Platform provides peace of mind through end-to-end data security and access control. Immuta’s native integration with Snowflake delivers automated, scalable data discovery, security, and monitoring, and the seamless user experience and close collaboration earned Immuta the title...

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August 29, 2023

3 Key Components to Mastering Federated Data Mesh Governance

Like other modern advancements in data use, the data mesh concept is rooted in a central goal: give more users easier access to business-driving data. But like many data initiatives, implementation can be much more difficult than it seems. A data mesh architecture is an amalgamation of moving parts, decentralizing data away...

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August 15, 2023

How Instacart Streamlined Its Approach to Data Policy Authoring

As organizations continue migrating data to the cloud, they often focus on the anticipated benefits: enhanced analytics, scalability, and data democratization, to name a few. With a results-driven focus, the challenges associated with this transformation can sometimes be overlooked. One such challenge is the need to maintain an access management framework that streamlines comprehensive...

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December 22, 2022

The Next Generation of CCPA Compliance Requirements

The 2020 elections not only saw record turnout, but also ushered in a suite of new laws and lawmakers. Voters in California had a dozen propositions on the ballot, but one that has far reaching implications for citizens and organizations alike is Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) — or...

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October 6, 2022

What is Data Governance in Healthcare and Why is it Essential?

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, there were 4,419 reported healthcare data breaches between 2009-2021. As a result of these breaches, roughly 314,063,186 health data records were exposed to those with no right or legitimate purpose to access them. In the first half...

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September 6, 2022

IDC Report Highlights Cloud Data Management Challenges

Digital-first cloud data management is the future. A survey by the International Data Corporation (IDC) found that “90% of European organizations consider it crucial to have a digital-first strategy to achieve business value from more of their data.” However, only “32% of data available to enterprises is put to work.” This leaves...

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July 6, 2022

Simplify Data Access for Starburst’s Federated Query Engine and Data Mesh

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June 12, 2021

Maximize Financial Data Security with Immuta

For more than 160 years, Credit Suisse has been providing customers with best-in-class wealth management, investment banking, and financial services. As one of the largest multinational financial firms, technology is critical to the company’s global operations — and with nearly 50,000 employees worldwide, there is a high standard for efficient, adaptable IT...

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June 4, 2021

Layers of Data Policy Enforcement in Cloud Ecosystems

Organizations expanding their cloud data ecosystems (multi- and cross-cloud services for building data products) are faced with a number of options on where to enforce fine-grained access control policies on sensitive data, including security and privacy controls. As modern cloud architectures decouple compute and storage layers, the policy tier that...

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April 8, 2021

This Is Why Your Data Governance Strategy Is Failing

The first step of goal achievement is goal setting, and the first rule of goal setting is to make SMART goals — specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based. This best practice is well known by teams across industries and has been implemented for decades. However, as Gartner’s report The State of...

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January 22, 2021

The Key to Modernizing Data Governance Programs

“Data initiatives never live up to their full potential without appropriate governance behind [them].” This quote, from a senior data strategist interviewed in the new Best Practices Report on Modern Data Governance from TDWI, encompasses precisely why organizations should be prioritizing a data governance framework. Yet, just 38% of report respondents have...

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January 20, 2021

What is Data Governance? Everything You Need to Know

Organizations are increasingly recognizing their data as a valuable asset that can significantly shape and enhance business outcomes. As organizations continue to navigate digital transformation and the inevitable growth of big data, effective data governance frameworks have become essential to maximizing data’s value throughout its entire lifecycle. In this guide, we’re taking...

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January 20, 2021

How to Unlock Successful, Scalable GDPR Compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is omnipresent: It applies to every person or entity processing personal data in the European Union (EU), as well as all organizations that process the personal data of individuals located in the EU. The regulation seeks to increase individuals’ control over their personal data, including...

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November 13, 2020

A 10-Step Guide for Data Security in Cloud Computing

With an industry-wide 92% cloud adoption rate, well over half of organizations using multiple public clouds and enterprises planning to spend a third of their IT budgets on cloud tools in 2020, it’s clear that the future of enterprise analytics is in the cloud. Cloud computing and analytics promises to enhance...

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October 1, 2020

What is a Data Catalog? 5 Features of a Modern Data Catalog

Imagine going to a library in search of a specific book with a piece of information needed to finish an assignment. Did we mention you’re on a deadline? Good luck. This example may seem extreme, but for organizations that don’t have a data catalog, it’s not unfathomable. In either scenario,...

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June 20, 2017

Q&A with Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau about Data Governance and Machine Learning

Enterprises have a wealth of data at their fingertips and are eager to accelerate data innovation. But data governance can frequently stand in the way, posing issues that are both profound and vexing. Immuta’s CEO Matthew Carroll spoke with Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau, CEO, about the relationship between data governance and...

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