Category Archives: Data Discovery

The Digital World is Changing Fast: Data Discovery Can Help

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The rise in digital technology is creating opportunities for individuals and organizations to achieve unprecedented success. It’s also creating new challenges, particularly in protecting sensitive personal and financial information. Personally identifiable information (PII) is trivial to manage. It’s often spread across multiple locations and formats and can be challenging to find and classify. Organizations need […]

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Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round

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Without good data, it’s impossible to build an accurate predictive machine learning model. Explorium, a company that has been building a solution over the last several years to help data pros find the best data for a given model, announced a $75 million Series C today — just 10 months after announcing a $31 million […] Continue reading Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round→

Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists

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Back when I was a wee lad with a very security-compromised MySQL installation, I used to answer every web request with multiple “SELECT *” database requests — give me all the data and I’ll figure out what to do with it myself. Today in a modern, data-intensive org, “SELECT *” will kill you. With petabytes […] Continue reading Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists→

Demand for Healthcare Data Visualization for Better Protection

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The healthcare industry is one of the most heavily regulated in the world due to the volume and sensitivity of the data entrusted to it.  As data protection regulations grow more numerous and more stringent, companies must select and deploy solutions t… Continue reading Demand for Healthcare Data Visualization for Better Protection→

How do you Protect Sensitive Data if you Can’t Even Locate it?

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Knowing what risks impact your business can give security professionals a deeper grasp of what data protection tools are required to effectively protect data stored within the perimeter. However, a major obstacle to mitigating risk and protecting … Continue reading How do you Protect Sensitive Data if you Can’t Even Locate it?→

What does Chocolate Have to do With Maintaining Privacy Regulations…

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Ever since the murmurings regarding GDPR began in 2016, achieving privacy compliance has become a common discussion (well, at least among CISOs and CIOs). While lots and lots of ink has been spilled on the “how to get there” aspect of achieving complia… Continue reading What does Chocolate Have to do With Maintaining Privacy Regulations…→

Great Expectations: Identifying Non-Secured Personal Data for CCPA

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“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” Charles Dickens When privacy practitioners championed the use of the first generation and now outdated ‘Mapping Sold as Di… Continue reading Great Expectations: Identifying Non-Secured Personal Data for CCPA→

Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery platform grows

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In a world with growing amounts of data, finding the right set for a particular machine learning model can be a challenge. Explorium has created a platform to make that an easier task, and today the startup announced a $31 million Series B. The round was led by Zeev Venture with help from Dynamic Loop, […] Continue reading Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery platform grows→

Data Discovery to Rescue Historical Data from Compliance Violations

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By Ishani Sircar, Manager, Product Marketing at CipherCloud As technology evolved and the world migrated to the cloud,  the amount of data in the cloud increased at a rapid pace, and most organizations in trying to keep pace overlooked security be… Continue reading Data Discovery to Rescue Historical Data from Compliance Violations→