Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently published an intriguing white paper outlining the challenges organizations face when securing the modern data stack. They delve into how organizations can regain security visibility and control of their data environments while ensuring the right identities have secure, compliant and fast access to the right data at the right time.
Tackling Security and Access Governance Challenges
Today’s data environments are extremely dynamic, decentralized and inherently complex, providing limited observability into data access privileges and governance. This is because the modern data stack is made up of dozens of platforms and services – most of them delivered as-a-service on top of public cloud infrastructure, each with their own access control paradigm. As a result, organizations have little insight into who or what is accessing critical business data, when they are accessing it and why.
ESG agrees that it doesn’t have to be this way, and endorses an effective solution to regain visibility and control into the access model of their modern data stacks. This is critical to unblock their fast growing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), business intelligence (BI), data analytics and large language model (LLMs) initiatives.
Key Insights from ESG
Here are a few takeaways from the report:
- As organizations look to make data more accessible to extract business value, there is an unpredictable proliferation of data access for analysis, movement, transformation and sharing. Without proper security controls, the system risks coming to a grinding halt with the looming possibility of hefty fines.
- Nearly half (46%) of technology leaders ranked security concerns as the primary challenge to building a modern data platform.
- Their security concerns include: managing data access privileges, ensuring guardrails on data use for the right business purpose, preventing data leakage and more.
- Acante’s data security intelligence platform for the modern data stack provides an AI-driven data security observability and privilege access management solution that automates and accelerates data security, access governance and compliance for data lake and data warehouse environments.
- Ultimately, data teams can drive data engineering productivity through fast, secure and compliant access to data to ensure that only the right identities are accessing the right data for the right business use.
Read the Report to Uncover Additional Insights
But don’t take our word for it. Download Data Security Observability and Access Governance for the Modern Data Stack from ESG to learn how you can simplify and enhance data privilege management.
