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How do you give engineers access to production databases in a secure way? Learn how...
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Satori changed its tagline to Win With Data. Never Lose Control to better reflect the...
May 30, 2024
Satori levels up in Snowflake’s Partner Network tier by enabling instant, self-service data access that...
December 14, 2023
Satori today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview.
November 15, 2023
Satori sweeps 33 badges in the G2 Fall 2023 reports and is recognized as a...
September 14, 2023
Explore the hidden privilege creep threat, where the accumulation of access rights puts your data...
July 27, 2023
Satori's Posture Management provides comprehensive visibility and control over data authorizations to proactively protect sensitive...
June 22, 2023
Satori has been included in the exclusive Microsoft Pegasus Program and is now available on...
June 8, 2023
Discusses HIPAA's technical safeguards and the benefits covered organizations can accrue from using Satori to...
March 22, 2023
Satori provides temporary authentication and secures access to sensitive data on a need-to-know basis at...
February 27, 2023
Sharing data is vital to increase organizational productivity, but this raises questions about security risk...
December 15, 2022
Postgres provides many benefits and has a wide range of useful native security measures, however,...
November 1, 2022
We explore effective Microsoft SQL user management strategies to keep your users organized, authorized, and...
October 18, 2022
Native database auditing capabilities, while necessary, in some cases could increase the complexity of an...
October 4, 2022
Some data store platforms have their own native dynamic masking capabilities. While it may be...
September 29, 2022
Many organizations are hesitant about data sharing. We explore the problems that prevent and the...
September 21, 2022
In this report, we analyze and report the results from our survey of 300 industry...
September 6, 2022
Data ownership is a critical yet often avoided task within organizations. While, individuals shy away...
August 30, 2022
ABAC is often implemented to overcome the limitations of RBAC, however, ABAC is not without...
August 24, 2022
The tremendous amount of Healthcare data can generate financial benefits as well as save lives...
August 18, 2022
The zero trust model requires continuously authenticated, authorized, and validated access to applications and data...
August 16, 2022
Agile data governance is crucial for organizations using cloud data stores with constantly changing data,...
August 11, 2022
RBAC is a useful model for access control, however, there are some instances where it...
August 9, 2022
Data engineering teams can spend a significant portion of their valuable time on cloud data...
August 4, 2022
Data governance by itself is a complicated procedure that is further compounded when performed in...
August 2, 2022
Data access control is often described as the Dementor of data engineers due to its...
July 26, 2022
Data classification projects are a dark cloud for data teams, often appearing randomly and redirecting...
July 21, 2022
Data security is critical, however, this task often defaults to already overwhelmed data engineering teams...
July 19, 2022
Data masking is essential when working with sensitive data. However, there are a number of...
July 12, 2022
Stakeholders including data consumers are ultimately people. Having an annoying work environment reduces productivity and...
July 7, 2022
Uncontrolled employee access to production environments is an operational challenge, because while access is necessary...
June 30, 2022
Classifying data as "need-to-know" is important for securing sensitive data. In this post we discuss...
June 23, 2022
Managing security and access policies from a consolidated platform simplifies processes and increases visibility and...
June 9, 2022
One of the common pain points data teams experience in authorizing users to access data...
May 26, 2022
Making life more simple for our customers not only means striving to deliver the best...
May 18, 2022
One of the most commonly used productivity tools is Slack, and the ability to control...
May 17, 2022
For years, we have been following our mission of enabling companies to deliver quicker data-driven...
May 16, 2022
Meeting data localization requirements can be challenging; this post explains how to simplify them with...
April 28, 2022
Satori and CockroachDB are announcing a partnership that will enable existing and new Satori and...
April 19, 2022
We’re announcing MySQL support in Satori to help companies secure their data access for MySQL...
April 14, 2022
A proxy server can be a forward proxy where the client directs traffic through a...
March 24, 2022
Before they can access data, users must get authenticated and authorized. In this regard, access...
March 8, 2022
In this article, I will give an overview of data access orchestration (not to be...
February 24, 2022
Some of the most common questions we, Satorians, encounter are about the many Satori deployment...
February 17, 2022
The more data a company collects and stores, the more likely that data can turn...
February 10, 2022
We all like having our cake and eating it too. In this article, we will...
February 2, 2022
This article will discuss the distinction between tokenization and encryption and their inverses: decryption and...
January 26, 2022
Data dictionaries, inventories, and catalogs are terms often used interchangeably. While they are all critical...
January 19, 2022
A lot of thought goes into how to help potential customers try out your product....
January 11, 2022
For the last few years, we at Satori have been a bit obsessed with Snowflake....
January 6, 2022
Access management has evolved to incorporate need-to-share authorizations in addition to need-to-know information. The authorization...
December 21, 2021
The future of data democratization lies in the hands of your end-users. They are already...
December 14, 2021
One account is not enough. In many cases, organizations using Snowflake use multiple accounts rather...
December 9, 2021
As the saying goes, “data is the new oil,” as it is quickly becoming an...
November 30, 2021
Today, as part of Snowflake’s global Snowday event, we are excited to announce our participation...
November 16, 2021
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all data governance framework that works for all...
November 11, 2021
Satori augments your Collibra data governance capabilities and creates a synergy for better DataSecOps across...
November 2, 2021
Many organizations are using Tableau to empower their BI activities for reporting and analytics. These...
October 27, 2021
In a previous post, we introduced you to our data classification capabilities. As a recap,...
October 13, 2021
Machine learning has been commoditized in the last decade or so, and I love it....
September 30, 2021
When data engineers and other professionals experience Satori for the first time, one aspect they...
September 22, 2021
Tableau is one of the most widely used BI tools which provides a wealth of...
September 3, 2021
A few years ago, when I first began using Athena, it was a magical and...
August 26, 2021
I love hiking as well as outdoor navigation. What I find especially useful for these...
August 18, 2021
I’m guessing there is no need to introduce you to Amazon Redshift or Google Looker,...
August 11, 2021
In this article, I will discuss how people perform data classification using Satori and explain...
July 22, 2021
In the first part of this article, we discussed the many reasons why you should...
July 15, 2021
In this post, we will discuss the DataSecOps advantages that Looker users over Snowflake enjoy...
July 8, 2021
Note: this is part 1 of the guide, in part 2 we discuss the questions...
July 1, 2021
Before we drill down to the “why” and “how” of limiting client tool access in...
June 24, 2021
Amazon Redshift allows companies to analyze large amounts of data, whether the data is stored...
June 17, 2021
Let’s start with good news – if you are using Snowflake and want a simple...
June 9, 2021
This article is also published as a chapter in our Snowflake Security guide, covering many...
May 27, 2021
History repeats itself. The transition of applications to the cloud and the development of software...
May 12, 2021
2022-12-01 If you’d like to view the entire guide of AWS Redshift Security topics, visit...
May 4, 2021
Every year, the cybersecurity industry has its biggest conference, the RSA conference in San Francisco...
April 26, 2021
Snowflake’s data access modeling is different from many other databases and data warehouses. It’s funny...
April 14, 2021
Creating and maintaining a data inventory is an important part of a comprehensive data management...
March 29, 2021
Data masking is the act of transforming parts of data to maintain its anonymity. There...
March 17, 2021
Being optimally focused is the key that helps you spend your resources better. When your...
March 11, 2021
There are moments when architecting data where you need to make decisions that will have...
March 4, 2021
The Snowflake Data Cloud helps organizations quickly transition from having a lot of data to...
February 14, 2021
In today’s ever-evolving digital age, data masking is one of the most essential features of...
February 1, 2021
Let’s understand the chain of events that leads to data access. For example, imagine you...
January 21, 2021
A few days ago, I wrote about some of the complexities of managing Snowflake roles...
January 20, 2021
RBAC, or Role-Based Access Controls, are foundational tenets of good data governance and key to...
January 14, 2021
Benchmarking Snowflake DB with TPC-H, including full queries and source code.
December 31, 2020
Data migration is not fun. I’ve been there, done that, and I did not like...
December 14, 2020
How to get better access control & security for your data lake using Satori along...
November 29, 2020
Column-level security in Satori for Snowflake, simplifies data and security teams life so they can...
November 26, 2020
How to implement Snowflake row-level access control, a step-by-step guide, with secure views or by...
November 9, 2020
Native DB access logs are useful, but using Satori to analyze data access logs helps...
Data engineers are often conflicted between engineering teams, security and privacy.
I recently published a lengthy diatribe about the problem of over-permissive access to data, the...
Meeting GDPR requirements is important, not only for EU companies but also for any companies...
Update – January 12th 2021: Following Snowflake’s preview addition of self-service account creation using the...
In the spirit of our Snowflake DB security and AWS Redshift security guides, we’ve created...
I need to get something off my chest. It’s time for our beloved infosec community...
This is part of our complete Amazon Redshift Guide.
If you’d like to read this guide, along with additional guides to specific topics in...
May 26, 2020
Implementing security products, services and solutions in enterprises is intrinsically difficult, especially when coordinating several...
April 27, 2020
“Laying out data infrastructure for a new product and big-data research is no small task....
This week, the Washington senate approved the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) to advance data privacy...
February 19, 2020
As the world undergoes a data revolution, the ways we generate, store, access, use and...
February 12, 2020
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