Startup Open Raven, which focuses on information safety for large-scale cloud storage deployments, on Nov. 18 launched its Open Raven Cloud-Native Data Protection Platform, designed to operationalize large information safety and privateness within the cloud.
To forestall information breaches, Open Raven automates asset discovery and information classification, supplies real-time mapping and policy-driven safety for Amazon Web Services and S3. The firm mentioned it plans so as to add availability for Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake and different clouds within the close to future.
The Open Raven Platform auto-discovers the place information is positioned within the cloud, what kind of information it is–personal, delicate, or regulated–as nicely as who has entry to it and the place it will probably stream for full visibility, management and safety.
Aimed at controlling the growing inflow of information
This is just not almost as simple as some IT folks may assume. The persevering with inflow of information from cellular gadgets, sensors, videocameras and dozens of different sources has prompted a disaster of types for directors making an attempt to maintain observe of storage and consider all of it for his or her enterprises.
“We’ve been watching massive amounts of data accumulating in the cloud, and watching in an era where security was really focused on the end point,” CEO and co-founder Dave Cole, a veteran of Symantec and Norton safety, instructed eWEEK. “This gave approach to an period when safety was far more targeted on id. But the incidents saved taking place and the privateness laws saved stacking up, so we regarded on the merchandise that had been on the market, and the legacy options had been far more targeted on issues like e-mail and workplace paperwork. Newer options targeted extra on compliance, however nothing was targeted on discovering precisely what (information) you’ve gotten and ripping by information lakes that had been rising to petabyte scale.
“There were some things provided by Amazon and Google, but it wasn’t their core business and were what we call ‘platform-credited.’ The offering from Amazon, especially, just wasn’t cost-effective; it was built to use on a much smaller scale. So we looked at this and said, ‘If people are going to protect their data, they have to have an easy way of knowing where it all is, what data is where, and how it’s protected.’ We said it’s simply too hard to do that at scale.”
Open Raven Cloud-Native Data Protection Platform now out there
Cole and his staff began final yr to construct the Open Raven platform and launched a neighborhood version early in 2020 as a free entry level. “We needed to know it could scale, we could render it (the data) all and bring it all together, and then we used that as a base to do inventory and go through those massive, massive data lakes,” Cole mentioned.
With the Open Raven Cloud-Native Data Protection Platform, Cole mentioned, safety and cloud groups now have a unified resolution for the next actions:
- to find all information and assets in a public cloud surroundings, together with each native and non-native repositories. Real-time mapping highlights downside areas at a look whereas search permits for…
