Words Matter in Data Protection Forgive your enemies, but never forgive their names. John F. Kennedy The names and words we use for data protection – encryption, masking, tokenizing all seem to be getting blurred together. And with these lines blurring, the complex assignment of securing data in a Big Data context just got all […]
Read More ›Any marketer worth their salt knows that there is power in effectively presenting and displaying information. And many probably have a (now dusting) copy of the seminal information display bible, Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and his easier to read followup, Envisioning Information. I’ve been a huge fan of Tufte, but his books are […]
Read More ›No, this isn’t a post about a discovery assignment for the adult industry As a data-centric security provider focused on Hadoop and Big Data security, we see a lot of different types of data—classic data warehouse and archive data, online transaction and online analytic data (OLTP and OLAP), relational data in databases, CSV and Excel […]
Read More ›(Figure 1: Not my diary. But someone’s secrets nonetheless!) Did you ever keep a journal/diary as a kid? Did you ever intentionally destroy that journal to protect those secrets from getting into the hands of prying eyes (siblings in my case, or parents potentially)? I’ve been thinking a lot about secrets recently. With the breach […]
Read More ›Enterprise Adoption of Hadoop The buzz in Hadoop these days is around enterprise adoption. Gartner sparked* this discussion with a report last month stating that for some enterprises, …”investment remains tentative in the face of sizable challenges around business value and skills.” (See report publication here). Are we looking at a half-full glass of Hadoop, or are […]
Read More ›During a press conference thirteen years ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously answered a question about how military decision-making was impacted by the lack of evidence for linking Iraq with nuclear weapons: There are known knowns; there are things we know we know … there are known unknowns; … we know there are some things […]
Read More ›Ugh, it’s coming up on ½ through the year already. 2015! Remember when you were a kid and you thought that by 2015 we’d all be riding on hovercrafts, with sting-ray guns and meal pellets (meals that popped out of a drop of water?) Well, with the exception of driver-less cars, those sci-fi predictions are […]
Read More ›Real Lakes and Data lakes: In California, there seems to be an awful lot of lakes, even tiny ones, and no ponds. From my New Hampshire childhood, I remember small lakes as “ponds.” Which lead me to go look up the actual difference between the two… According to limnology (the study of water bodies), the […]
Read More ›Dying Giant Illustration (Courtesy of Steve Cox) In the last three months, three of our top five competitors have been acquired. Competitive acquisitions can be an earth-shattering event in the life of a startup. Perhaps not unlike Draft day speculation and mock-draft predictions in professional sports, the who’s gonna buy whom predictions, strategizing, and gameplay […]
Read More ›National Harbor, MD – June 23, 2014 – Dataguise®, the leading provider of data-centric security solutions for Big Data Protection, today announced at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit the immediate availability of the Dataguise for Data Governance™ suite, the industry’s first solution suite for Big Data Governance. Dataguise for Data Governance enables organizations to […]
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