BlueTalon, Inc. was a private enterprise software company, that provided data-centric security, user access control, data masking, and auditing solutions for complex, hybrid data environments. BlueTalon was founded in 2013 by Pratik Verma and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.[2][3]
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| Company type | Privately funded |
|---|---|
| Industry | Data-centric security |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founder | Pratik Verma, Founder and Chief Product Office |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Eric Tilenius (CEO)[1] |
| Products | BlueTalon Policy Engine, BlueTalon Enforcement Points, BlueTalon Audit Engine |
Number of employees | 1-50 |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | www.bluetalon.com |
Background
editThe company’s user access control technology was spurred out of a number of converging technology trends, that drove the need for more data-centric security.[5]
These trends include:
- The increasing amount of data that companies collect to run their business.[6]
- The emergence of innovative database technologies such as Hadoop and NoSQL that provide enterprises with an economically viable means to collect massive amounts of structured and unstructured information.[7]
- The unabated stream of cyberattacks that leads to bigger and more damaging data breaches.
- The rapid adoption of cloud computing that pressures companies to rethink where they deploy computing and data resources.
Funding
editBlueTalon is privately held and backed by Maverick Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Data Collective, Arsenal Ventures, Biosys Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Stanford-StartX Fund, Divergent Ventures, and Berggruen Holding.[8]
Technology
editBlueTalon, Inc. takes a data-centric approach to security, where the focus is on securing the data itself rather than the network used to access the data or the servers that host the data. The goal of the approach is to scale the protection of data, ensure consistency of data access policies across complex and hybrid data environments that include the cloud, meet regulatory compliance and enable the business by giving end users access to the data they need to perform their job.[citation needed]
The BlueTalon technology decouples the authoring and management of security policies from the enforcement of these policies on data repositories. The underlying, flexible and scalable architecture matches the complexity of today’s large enterprise environments (research shows that the majority of firms use more than 50 different data sources for their analytics environment).[9] This security approach allows a variety of database technologies to be supported, including Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, and traditional SQL-based repositories, and can be deployed on-premises or in private and public clouds.[citation needed]
The BlueTalon Data-Centric Security Platform applies the user rules and data access policies defined centrally by security staff to all data requests made by applications and users to only return a policy-compliant data set. Dynamic data masking capabilities prevent sensitive data from being visible to unauthorized users. Auditing lets security staff monitor data usage directly at the data layer for compliance and unusual behavior.[10]
Partnerships
editBlueTalon has partnered with big data and cloud computing companies such as Hadoop commercial distribution vendors and DataStax to help accelerate the adoption of big data in the enterprise and remove security as a barrier to adoption. BlueTalon announced its partnership and certification by Cloudera in August 2015.[11]
In July 2015, BlueTalon announced its partnership with Microsoft for the delivery of data-centric security for the deployment of Hadoop in Microsoft Azure HDInsight.[12] BlueTalon is also available to Amazon Elastic mapReduce customers.[13] Through these partnerships, joint customers will be able to more rapidly integrate data-centric security into the deployment of their big data or data lake initiatives.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Microsoft acquires BlueTalon to bolster data governance offerings". 29 July 2019.
- ^ Novet, Jordan (2019-07-29). "Microsoft buys a start-up whose software limits access to sensitive data". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ "Microsoft acquires BlueTalon to bolster data governance offerings". VentureBeat. 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ "Microsoft Acquires BlueTalon: Building the Next Generation of Cloud Data Governance Together". BlueTalon. Archived from the original on 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
- ^ Gartner Group (2014). "Gartner Says Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security". Archived from the original on June 11, 2014.
- ^ IDC (2014). "IDC: The Digital Universe of Opportunities".
- ^ InfoWorld (2015). "How big data is changing the database landscape for good".
- ^ "BlueTalon closes $16 Million series A financing led by Maverick Ventures". 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Forrester (2015). "Delivering Governed Data for Analytics At Scale" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
- ^ "BlueTalon Data-Centric Security Platform". Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
- ^ "BlueTalon Partners With Cloudera, Delivering Enhanced Data-Centric Security on Hadoop". 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
- ^ "BlueTalon Integrates with Microsoft Azure HDInsight to Drive Big Data Adoption in the Cloud". 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
- ^ "Using BlueTalon with Amazon EMR". 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.