Still Doing Data Access Using Native Database or Cloud Controls?

Thinking of DIY access with native database controls? Consider the hidden costs and complexities involved.

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Organizations are often tempted to accept cloud providers claims that they offer comprehensive built-in data governance solutions, but these often come up short in real life. They are limited to their own ecosystems, forcing companies to fill gaps in hybrid and multi-cloud estate. They often offer coarse grained, role-based access, leading to overprovisioning or making copies of data. This ultimately creates inefficiencies, security risks, and compliance issues that can spiral out of control, leading to higher ownership costs and reduced data visibility. Where this occurs, companies struggle to scale and fail to deliver on the need for faster data, while remaining in compliance.

Privacera Data Security Platform

Privacera Data Security Platform helps data and security teams centrally manage access and privacy controls. Unlike other Do-It-Yourself (DIY) or database specific approaches, Privacera provides a centralized data access and security solution that natively protects the broadest coverage of structured and semi-structured data. Importantly, it is built for enterprise scale, does not impact query performance; and is built on open standards.

With proven scalability and expansive connectivity, it’s obvious why Fortune 500 companies in retail banking, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, media, and entertainment are choosing Privacera over doing it themselves.

Privacera vs Native Database Controls

Often viewed as the free option, using some of the native database or cloud controls can negatively impact productivity, accuracy and increase costs.

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Enforcing S3 Data Policies: Creates Costs and Compliance Risks for Complex Organizations


Managing data access and security with thousands of AWS S3 buckets, each holding vast numbers of objects, is a significant challenge. AWS S3 relies on IAM roles for access management, that provides access to the entire bucket. This approach does not allow for fine grained controls over specific objects that might contain sensitive data. A common solution is isolating sensitive data in separate buckets with dedicated IAM roles, but this increases the number of buckets and roles, adding management complexity. Add to that the challenge that an IAM role in AWS is limited to handling 1,000 buckets, resulting for large organizations with thousands of buckets in a massive head ache. Additionally, retaining outdated test data to avoid accidental deletions often drives up storage costs, further complicating data governance.


Simplifying BigQuery Governance at Scalewith projects and roles


Google BigQuery is a pwerful analytical solution, but it’s access and security provisions rely on adding tables to projects. Managing access, governance, and sensitive data at scale with thousands of BigQuery tables across hundreds of projects is daunting become a challenge, especially when oboarding new data or new users continually require the addition of a new project and then granting access to the new project to users requiring the data. Complexity grows as environments expand, making data access governance a challenge when each new project, dataset, or table demands manual integration, turning access control into a time-consuming, error-prone process.

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Relying on a ticketing systems with manual permission coding increases costs and delays access, hindering efficiency


Many organizations rely on ServiceNow or similar ticketing system for users to request access to data. Upon approval this usually entails some IT database admin person to manually go to each database or storage bucket or project and insert the new permissions. Relying on ticketing systems for dataset requests creates an IT bottleneck with manual processing. This unsustainable approach increases overhead, delays, and errors in large environments. Without automation, inefficiencies grow, compounding the risk of non-compliance as the environment expands.     

Privacera’s Data Security Platform uniquely offers the following advantages over native database controls.

Centralized Approach to Data Security

Centralized data access governance streamlines security, accelerates access, reduces overhead, and boosts agility. Deploying a unified platform future-proofs data estates, enabling seamless integration of new sources. This enhances security, aligns with identity providers, and simplifies data lake management. Consistent access controls, also, reduce errors, improves productivity, and scales governance.

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Fine-grained Attribute-, Tag-, Resource- or Intent-based Access Controls

Privacera’s pwerful access management, masking and encryption engines eliminate piecemeal manual data security and access management processes one database at a time. Combining ABAC, TBAC, and RBAC automates and streamlines the on-boarding of new users and data. Native enforcement of policy rules across more than 50 different dat asources means that your current and future data security needs will be met with minimal extra effort. Tag integration with data catalogs and attribute integration with IAM and other data governance solutions automate data security even further. Deliver fine-grained resource-based access control, allowing data owners, stewards, or policy creators to apply access controls and data protection to a specific data set, table, file, or row, delivering greater flexibility and highly targeted data access control.

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Enhanced transparency, consistency, and auditability.

With its centralizaed platform acorss all your data estates, Privacera provides out to the box reports and dashboards that give you a comprehensive view of all your Data Access and Security policies. With Privacera’s sensitive data reporting there is no need to pull access and policy information from multiple source systems to get data access and security enforcement policies. Privacera provides a single place and approach to build, enforce, and monitor policies across your entire data estate, providing easy identification, monitoring, and usage for compliance audits.

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See how Privacera Outshines DIY

Discover the unique advantages of Privacera over DIY by signing up for a free trial or requesting a personalized demo. Experience the seamless integration, comprehensive data security, and superior user experience that set Privacera apart. Don’t just take our word for it; explore how our solution can revolutionize your data management strategy.

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