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16 Ways IoT Builders Can Ensure The Security Of Users’ Data

Summary The convenience and services consumers look for from their IoT devices requires “fuel”—and the fuel powering IoT devices is data. IoT devices continuously gather and exchange sensitive data; therefore, a compelling priority for any company producing tech for the IoT is data security. Below, 16 members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies to help IoT companies […]

101 Texas, United States Based Computer Companies | The Most Innovative Computer Companies

Summary We’ve ranked the top 101 Computer companies in Texas, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials). We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

Why Tokenization Is The Killer App For Analytics

Summary Unlike encryption, deterministic tokens can safely maintain relationships with other datasets. Because there’s no key and no relationship between the data and the token, tokenized data is useless to someone with inadvertent or malicious access. Yet determinism allows operators to create value from data without having to first detokenize it.

Data Governance & BI: 4 Steps to a Successful Strategy

Summary As the BI or data warehouse administrator, you’d typically have two choices in this situation: Create accounts on the cloud data warehouse for every individual user OR use a single “shared service” account that connects to the cloud data warehouse through one account and pulls data for thousands of BI users. This approach leaves […]

14 Tech-Related Ethical Concerns And How They Can Be Addressed

Summary There are no more enthusiastic proponents of technology than leaders in the tech industry, but they’re also the people who are most aware of the functional and ethical drawbacks that almost inevitably arise in rapidly evolving technology tools. Here, 14 members of Forbes Technology Council discuss tech-related ethical issues that they’re concerned about—from the biases in […]

ALTR is developing a policy automation tool for businesses

Summary These data and analytics engineers are faced with enormous backlogs as a result of their business being set up data access policies, managing ongoing data permissions, and handling data access requests. These professionals end up spending a large chunk of the business hours on their main task. ALTR”s policy automation platform, which was first […]

Snowflake bids for transactional and data science workloads in broad set of enhancements

Summary ALTR Solutions Inc., a maker of data control and protection software, released a new policy automation engine for managing data access controls in Snowflake and other environments. It allows data engineers and architects to set up data access policies in minutes, manage ongoing updates to data permissions and handle data access requests through ALTR’s […]

13 Tech Experts Share Essential Facts About End-To-End Encryption

Summary Consumers and businesses alike are bombarded by cautionary news stories about the importance of protecting their digital data. While that message may be coming through loud and clear, what may be holding the public back when it comes to fully protecting themselves is a lack of knowledge about the specifics of available security tools […]

Real-time Analytics News for Week Ending June 18

Summary ALTR announced the release of its new policy automation engine for managing data access controls in Snowflake and beyond. The solution allows data engineers and architects to set up data access policies in minutes, manage ongoing updates to data permissions, and handle data access requests through ALTR’s own no-code platform for data policy management. ALTR […]