Cloudera and Protegrity
Secure cloud and AI for regulated industries
Why Cloudera + Protegrity?
In a data-driven landscape, organizations rely on Cloudera for data, analytics, and AI innovation, making robust data protection a critical requirement. Protegrity is the ideal security partner, seamlessly integrating comprehensive data protection within Cloudera environments. In combination with Cloudera SDX’s fine-grained access controls, Protegrity ensures that only authorized users access sensitive information, employing diverse data protection methods like encryption and tokenization for tailored security measures.
The partnership between Protegrity and Cloudera is essential across all IT environments where data analytics is mission-critical, providing businesses with the confidence in their ability to harness analytics power without compromising security and privacy. This integration offers a robust solution for organizations seeking critical data insights while upholding stringent data protection standards amidst constant threats like data breaches and privacy concerns.
The Protegrity Data Protection Platform integrates with various Cloudera services, including Cloudera Data Engineering and Cloudera Data Warehouse. This enables customers to enforce their data protection policies across any environment, keeping data protected at rest, in transit, and in use. This crucial capability allows for secure data sharing across the enterprise, helping customers fully leverage insights from Cloudera services.
The partnership between Protegrity and Cloudera is crucial in all IT environments where data analytics is vital. It gives businesses the confidence to truly harness the power of analytics without putting security and privacy at risk. This integration offers a robust solution for organizations looking for critical data insights while maintaining strict data protection standards, especially with constant threats like data breaches and privacy concerns.
Key highlights
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Data Protection and Privacy for Data, Analytics, and AI
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Partnership Highlights
Seamlessly integrates comprehensive data protection within Cloudera environments, complementing Cloudera SDX for fine-grained access controls, ensuring only authorized users access sensitive information.
Fortifies analytics and business applications through diverse data protection methods like encryption, tokenization, and access controls, safeguarding data integrity and confidentiality
Supports compliance and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, CCPA), preventing legal challenges and adapting to evolving technologies for future data-driven initiatives
About Protegrity
Our data protection system protects sensitive data anywhere and everywhere, empowering organizations across the globe to use data to create better customer experiences, make intelligent decisions, and fuel innovation.
Joint solution overview
The Cloudera-Protegrity integration establishes a robust data protection framework within the Cloudera platform, moving beyond traditional reliance on access controls alone. This combined solution provides comprehensive data security that safeguards data integrity, ensures confidentiality, and supports compliance with evolving privacy regulations. It allows organizations to confidently leverage Cloudera for data, analytics, and AI innovation, knowing their sensitive information is thoroughly protected. For the first time, with this partnership, the actual data itself can be protected from external and internal threats. This includes data at rest within databases and storage, data in use during processing, and data in transit to enterprise systems like an Enterprise Data Warehouse. This end-to-end data security strategy is achieved through a collaborative set of Protegrity Data Protectors that can be combined as needed to provide flexible security for sensitive data in all forms across an entire enterprise. The joint solution addresses the critical need for robust data protection in today's data-driven landscape, especially for organizations seeking critical data insights while upholding stringent data protection standards. It empowers businesses to make secure, data-driven decisions and adapt to evolving technologies, securing data’s vital role in future analytics and business applications.
Unlock the Value of Secure Data for Innovation
Protegrity integrates with our Cloudera platform to:
- Protect data during batch and streaming data pipeline processing, ensuring data security while enabling engineering workloads
- Enables data protection at rest and in use within Cloudera, supporting secure self-service analytics and data warehousing
- Protegrity complements Cloudera SDX’s fine-grained access controls, enhancing the overall security posture by adding comprehensive data-level protection.
Value-adds
Comprehensive Data Protection Methods
Protegrity supports a wide range of methods including Vaultless Tokenization, format-preserving encryption, strong encryption, masking, hashing, anonymization, and synthetic data generation, allowing organizations to match the risk associated with data types with specific protection methods.
Central Policy & Key Management
Protegrity’s policy-level approach empowers Security Officers to define exactly what, when, where, and how data will be protected, who is allowed access, and to meticulously record all attempts to access sensitive data.
Enterprise Coverage & Interoperability
Protegrity has a proven record of successfully implementing data security solutions in complex, heterogeneous environments, ensuring extensive interoperability with various databases, operating systems, applications, and platforms across large enterprises.
Services & Support
Dedicated Data Protectors
Protegrity offers a collaborative set of Data Protectors, including Database/Data Warehouse Protector, Cloud Native/API, File Protector, and Application Protector, which can be combined to provide flexible, end-to-end security for sensitive data across the entire enterprise.
Central Reporting for Compliance
Protegrity’s Central Reporting capability allows Security Officers to monitor continuous enforcement of policies across all protection points, providing compliance assessors with necessary information to certify adherence to legal and regulatory requirements like PCI, HIPAA/HITECH, and PII.
Separation of Duties
The Protegrity Security Platform enforces Separation of Duties, isolating security administration to security officers, preventing database and application administrators or users from accessing sensitive data in the clear or granting unauthorized security access.
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Joint Compliance and Regulatory Adherence
The joint Cloudera-Protegrity solution helps organizations adopt and enforce global regulations as data privacy requirements evolve, supporting compliance with stringent mandates such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, CCPA, and Quebec's Law 25. The solution aids in simplifying compliance requirements by reducing audit scope and complexity, thereby enhancing trust and compliance. Protegrity’s Central Reporting provides the necessary information for compliance assessors to certify adherence to applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Use cases
- Accelerating AI and analytics innovation
- Ensuring data confidentiality and compliance
- Secure data sharing and enterprise coverage
Accelerating AI and analytics innovation
Ensuring data confidentiality and compliance
Secure data sharing and enterprise coverage
Challenge: To fully leverage insights from Cloudera services, organizations need to enable secure data sharing across the entire enterprise. Traditional security measures often fall short when data is in motion, leading to potential vulnerabilities.
Allows for tailored and flexible security measures by matching specific data risks with appropriate methods like Vaultless Tokenization, format-preserving encryption, masking, hashing, anonymization, and synthetic data generation, reducing overall enterprise risk.
Simplifies and standardizes rules for sensitive data with a unified approach, enabling Security Officers to determine granular protection policies and enhancing compliance by reducing audit scope and complexity.
Ensures sensitive data is secured throughout its entire lifecycle and across any environment, offering robust protection against external and internal threats regardless of its location or state.