Data

Website logins. Mobile apps. Customer support portals. Chat. Digitizing the user experience means most companies have vast amounts of data on their clients, collected across multiple channels and stored in different systems.  Depending on the jurisdiction, industry, or type of data, your organization must comply with many regulations governing…

What is the Snowpipe Streaming API The Snowpipe Streaming API is a new Snowflake innovation that exposes a streaming API that can be used to connect and write directly to a Snowflake database using your own managed application. This prompts low-latency loads of streaming data rows using the Snowflake Ingest SDK and your own managed application…

Compliance with data privacy law doesn’t just protect end users’ personal data—it also provides critical cyber security defenses for organizations. Employees and customers now expect the freedom to safely sign on from anywhere and companies are adopting and managing more cloud-based tools; meanwhile, data breaches continue to escalate in frequency…

Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced their Amazon Security Lake which lets you build a security data lake from integrated cloud and on-premises data sources as well as from your private applications. With support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) standard, Amazon Security Lake reduces the complexity and costs for…

Each month we’ll highlight one of the founders of Okta Ventures’ portfolio companies. You’ll get to know more about them and learn how they work with Okta. This month we’re speaking with Simon Taylor, Founder, and CEO of HYCU.  What is HYCU, and what is your mission?  HYCU is the world’s fastest-growing Data Protection as a Service company, with…

The holiday season means different things to different people, but some aspects of it are universal: reconnecting with family and friends, eating great food, and taking the time to unwind from work. At Okta, the holidays are also a chance for us to look back at the data we’ve gathered from our more than 7,000 customers, and 6,000 apps and…

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a European Union (“EU”) law, but it’s going to have a big impact on American businesses that collect and process personal data of EU individuals. While American companies may be familiar with its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive through the Privacy Shield and Model Clause programs, the…