Database Security Articles
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Multi-Tenant Data Security, making SaaS applications and their underlying databases even easier to protect with record-level encryption. According to the company, this solution ensures that any SaaS provider meets the most stringent privacy regulations and gives their customers complete protection and control of their data. As a result, the SaaS vendor gains a competitive advantage and the ability to monetize enhanced data security.
Posted February 23, 2023
While the emerging constellation of next-generation data architectures—fabric, mesh, and cloud—is extremely appealing, it's still full of unknowns. These approaches present opportunities for greater data democratization, but also increased complexity. Understanding the distinctions between data fabric and mesh are also important before moving to this architecture.
Posted February 23, 2023
Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection, and security software provider, announced the general availability of a reimagined KACE Cloud platform to transform endpoint management with automated patching for all devices in the cloud. Available now, this pioneering capability offers businesses an all-in-one solution beyond conventional patching with over 10,000 patches to over 350 third-party applications, including Adobe, Cisco, Google Chrome, and Slack.
Posted February 23, 2023
EnterpriseDB (EDB), accelerator of Postgres in the enterprise, is announcing the global availability of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), enhancing Postgres' security and performance abilities where organizations struggle to meet compliance requirements.
Posted February 22, 2023
Hexaware Technologies is expanding its membership in the SAP PartnerEdge program to include the Sell track, with the goal of selling many SAP products, including RISE with SAP. This expansion is in addition to its existing participation in the Service track. Participation in the Sell track will help Hexaware accelerate the sales cycle and deliver more comprehensive SAP portfolio solutions, in a flexible model that will help transform business outcomes, according to the vendor.
Posted February 22, 2023
SAP and Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, is expanding their partnership to significantly increase SAP's use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This collaboration aims to enhance intelligent business operations, support cloud transformation across industries, and drive holistic IT innovation, according to the vendors.
Posted February 22, 2023
In 2023, companies will live and die by their data strategies. Massive increases in information generation, the cloud, and innovative technologies will be top of mind for database managers, all while an uncertain economy continually threatens budgets. For companies to build and maintain exciting applications that customers love while increasing the bottom line, they need to plan, adapt, and execute effective strategies for their data and databases.
Posted February 22, 2023
Though not completely post-Covid, 2023 looks to be an uncertain economic year due to a variety of factors. Businesses continue to deal with a new hybrid reality as employees work remotely or several days in the office, leading to increased security, tapping into the cloud, AI, and more. Some companies lost portions of their workforce or recruited new talent during this upheaval; others are searching for compatible workers.
Posted February 22, 2023
MinIO and Veeam are partnering to support Veeam Backup and Replication v12 features, simplifying backup architectures and operations. It is no longer necessary to maintain two separate storage platforms, one for each Veeam tier. Users don't need anything other than a single MinIO deployment to support Veeam and storage architecture is flattened, with system maintenance becoming easier.
Posted February 17, 2023
Fiddler, a provider of Model Performance Management (MPM) solutions, is debuting a set of capabilities in analytics, diagnostics, and vector monitoring to help monitor, explain, analyze, and improve trustworthy models. The company has also introduced a free 14-day trial and new pricing plans, making it easy for users to quickly realize the benefits of the Fiddler MPM platform and pay for only what they use.
Posted February 16, 2023
A short treatise on three mistakes organizations commonly make when designing or extending governance programs. Loosely inspired by discussions about (but not written by) ChatGPT. Decision rights—who needs to make what decisions—are the crux of governance. Success is not determined by the seniority of your governance council(s) or how many data stewards you have. Successful governance hinges on understanding how decisions are effectively made and made effective.
Posted February 16, 2023
Accenture announced it has acquired Morphus, a privately held Brazil-based cyber defense, risk management and cyber threat intelligence services provider, expanding its footprint in Brazil and Latin America. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands Accenture's portfolio and marks the launch of a cyber industry practice in Latin America led by seasoned former CISOs from Morphus.
Posted February 14, 2023
Veza, the authorization platform for identity-first security, is launching an access permissions integration with GitHub to enhance security enterprise IP.
Posted February 14, 2023
Siren, provider of the Investigative Intelligence Platform, is announcing its recent strategic partnership with DarkOwl, a threat intelligence company specializing in dark web data.
Posted February 14, 2023
DBTA recently held a webinar, "Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2023," to discuss the new technologies and approaches for cultivating an excelsior data architecture that holistically addresses the myriad of modern data architecture needs.
Posted February 13, 2023
Dataiku is releasing version 11.3 of its platform, delivering brand-new features for data analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers and operators.
Posted February 10, 2023
DBTA held a webinar, "Building a Next-Generation Data Architecture: Key Capabilities and Strategies," to uncover the ways in which IT decision-makers and data processionals pilot their data architectures to best maintain a market edge in the thick of infrastructure complexity.
Posted February 09, 2023
During Database & Technology Week 2022, an event sponsored by the Quest Oracle Community, Marc Sewtz, senior director of software development for Oracle APEX, shared the new features in Oracle APEX's release 22.2. Oracle APEX is an enterprise low-code application platform that allows developers to quickly create and deploy cloud or on-premises apps that solve real problems and provide immediate value.
Posted February 09, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted February 09, 2023
Data analytics—and the people who make it happen—has emerged as the centerpiece of enterprises as they advance through the turbulent months ahead. Many of these efforts are gelling around the formation of dedicated C-level leaders, such as chief data officers and chief data analytics officers (CDOs and CDAOs, respectively).
Posted February 09, 2023
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted February 09, 2023
It's time to submit nominations for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users.
Posted February 09, 2023
Cequence Security, the provider of unified API protection, is unveiling the latest testing capabilities—API Security Testing—for its unified API protection platform, with emphasis on vulnerabilities during the pre-production process.
Posted February 08, 2023
ThreatLocker, a provider of endpoint protection technologies, is launching ThreatLocker Ops, a community-driven threat detection tool that assists administrators to detect attempted breaches or weaknesses in their systems.
Posted February 06, 2023
FireCompass announced the company has secured $7 million in funding to revolutionize Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Cervin and Athera Venture Partners (previously Inventus Capital) along with existing investor BIF (Bharat Innovation Fund). The investment will be used to expand FireCompass' operations across U.S. and international markets and bring on new talent.
Posted February 06, 2023
DoControl, the automated SaaS security company, is announcing the general availability of its unified, no-code, risk-aware SaaS security platform on the AWS Marketplace.
Posted February 02, 2023
Sentra, a cloud data security company, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing the total capital raised to over $53 million.
Posted February 01, 2023
Oracle announced that Oracle Aconex for Defense has become the first construction and engineering project management and collaboration software to earn Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 4 (IL4) provisional authorization. This recognition signifies that the software meets the security requirements for the processing and storage of controlled unclassified information, enabling the Department of Defense (DOD) agencies and their delivery partners to access, share, and collaborate on construction and engineering mission information at a heightened security level.
Posted February 01, 2023
Ensono, an expert technology advisor, innovation partner, and managed service provider, is releasing Ensono Envision Advisor, a multi-platform optimization solution combining data and guidance from certified expert engineers who offer unbiased actionable advice that enables optimization of a client's IT estate across cost, security, performance, availability, and reliability.
Posted January 26, 2023
Satori, a leading data security platform, is adding support for MongoDB, a scalable and flexible NoSQL document database used for high-volume data storage and processing. MongoDB users can now take advantage of Satori's data security platform to reduce risk, improve productivity, and ensure compliance.
Posted January 25, 2023
SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating to accelerate digital transformation to support their customers, building on the success of their longstanding partnership. The collaboration brings together the technology, solutions, and flexibility that customers need to help them succeed in the digital economy, according to the vendors. The companies have had a strategic relationship for more than a decade with thousands of customers.
Posted January 25, 2023
Onapsis, a leader in business application cybersecurity and compliance, today announced a strategic collaboration with Wipro Limited, a technology services and consulting company, to drive digital transformation and business growth for customers. Enterprises embarking on their digital transformation journey are often faced with a complex SAP landscape and a limited understanding of how to secure these applications.
Posted January 25, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., is partnering with Model9, a leader in cloud data management for mainframe, to offer greater access, visibility, and value from critical data for enterprises with mainframes as their core business platform. This partnership is key for enterprises that utilize hybrid cloud environments, according to the vendors.
Posted January 23, 2023
The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), IBM's thought leadership think tank, published its Security in the Quantum Era report, detailing the steps needed to secure data in the Quantum Era. This in-depth analysis of the quantum security landscape unveils the need for "quantum-safe" strategies today to maintain the integrity and security of highly sensitive data in the future.
Posted January 23, 2023
Immuta, provider of sensitive data discovery, security and access control, and data activity monitoring, is unveiling its latest continuous data security product, Immuta Detect.
Posted January 19, 2023
Introduced in a DBTA webinar, "Exploring Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters," Vin Yu, senior technical product manager at AWS, highlighted DocumentDB's new elastic clusters feature which allows users to quickly scale and support massive read and writes workloads, all while mitigating cost and alleviating menial administrative labor.
Posted January 19, 2023
Dremio, provider of an open data lakehouse platform, announced it is HIPAA compliant, reflecting the company's commitment to data security. Dremio also announced that it has renewed its SOC 2 Type II report, which now includes both Dremio Cloud and Dremio Software. Dremio meets the Information Security control requirements for a multitude of other compliance frameworks and certifications including ISO 270001 and GDPR.
Posted January 19, 2023
Introduced in a DBTA webinar, "Exploring Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters," Vin Yu, senior technical product manager at AWS, highlighted DocumentDB's new elastic clusters feature which allows users to quickly scale and support massive read and writes workloads, all while mitigating cost and alleviating menial administrative labor.
Posted January 19, 2023
Shane Murray, field CTO at Monte Carlo, and Samia Rahman, director of enterprise data strategy and governance at Seagen, gathered for a DBTA webinar, "2023 Predictions: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Engineering Teams," to discuss their predictions for the most critical challenges and opportunities facing data engineering teams in the coming year.
Posted January 19, 2023
Kintent, the programmatic, predictive Trust Assurance platform, is releasing its new TrustShare application, allowing software companies to pass security reviews quickly with AI-powered security questionnaire responses while also offering a dynamic trust portal to share security and privacy compliance status with prospects and partners.
Posted January 19, 2023
Styra, Inc., the creator and maintainer of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and leader of cloud-native authorization, is adding the industry's broadest policy library and toolset for infrastructure to its Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). To address security concerns associated with the use of containers, Styra now provides NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-190 compliant policies within its expanded library that includes hundreds of validated policies.
Posted January 18, 2023