Immuta, a leader in data security, has released Immuta Discover, a new product for automatic tagging and classification on cloud data platforms. Immuta Discover empowers data teams to create and maintain extremely accurate metadata for data access control, monitoring, and regulatory compliance.
Immuta Discover identifies structured data in cloud data platforms automatically and continuously. It can also use existing metadata from enterprise data catalogs such as Alation. Immuta Discover leverages all of this metadata to enable visibility of all sensitive data, which is crucial for developing data policies to secure the data and analyze its usage. Immuta Discover, a key component of Immuta’s comprehensive Data Security Platform, reduces manual, error-prone processes and assists organizations in improving data security, gaining full visibility into their data, and unlocking its value.
Using highly precise and descriptive metadata to discover, tag, and classify sensitive material is a vital component of a successful data security strategy. However, as the number of data sources and consumers grows, today’s organizations are burdened with increasingly distributed data. Existing solutions are not built to accurately and granularly identify and classify data from all of these sources for security and governance. The lack of precise metadata creates security vulnerabilities and blind spots, making meeting tight compliance rules challenging.
Immuta Discover enables data teams to scan, classify, and tag data quickly and precisely, allowing them to apply data control policies and monitor data access. This gives teams complete insight and context into all of their data assets, allowing them to better safeguard and monitor sensitive data for improved data security posture management. Immuta provides 60+ pre-built and domain-specific classifiers, allowing organizations to adjust data classifications to their individual business objectives and desired confidence levels.
“Immuta Discover is the foundational component to making any data security program work within your organization and remain compliant,” stated Mo Plassnig, Immuta’s Chief Product Officer. “It is the first step that must be taken to protect your data.” In today’s digital world, data is continuously changing. To fulfill expanding data security and access demands, organizations must fully understand what data they have – with precise classification – and maintain a trustworthy inventory of sensitive data across cloud platforms. And Immuta Discover assists our consumers in doing just that.”
Customers can use Immuta Discover to automatically discover and classify sensitive data by exploiting the following new capabilities:
- Accurate and actionable metadata for data protection – Immuta Discover provides accurate, granular metadata and actionable tags on sensitive data, allowing users to securely secure data at scale across cloud platforms. The software provides complete metadata visibility into which data needs access controls and auditing. Immuta Secure may use the metadata directly to regulate the data, while Immuta Detect can use it to monitor data access.
- Agentless multi-cloud data discovery – Immuta Discover scans and classifies data natively, without the need for software installation or an agent operating alongside the cloud data platform. The data is never removed from the data platform. This method simplifies operations while also being secure and compliant, allowing data teams to be more efficient with an always-updated data inventory.
- Immuta Discover automatically categorizes data that is subject to leading regulatory frameworks such as CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI, allowing you to establish compliant access control policies. Immuta’s in-house Legal Engineering Team creates and maintains these frameworks, and customers can also customize frameworks based on their interpretations of specific requirements for quicker compliance.
“I am thrilled to see the addition and announcement of Immuta Discover to Immuta’s Data Security Platform,” stated Sanjeev Mohan, founder of SanjMo and former Gartner analyst. “In today’s data management landscape, efficiently tagging and classifying data is a critical first step in protecting it against the growing number of threats.” The ability to scan data natively on a cloud data platform is a breakthrough that enables data discovery at scale.”
Immuta provides a comprehensive Data Security Platform that allows for sensitive data discovery, security, and access control, as well as activity monitoring. Immuta Discover discovers and categorizes sensitive material related to the leading regulatory frameworks automatically. Immuta Detect now monitors and audits important user and data access behavior. Furthermore, Immuta Secure offers scalable data access management and enforcement across cloud data platforms. These features, when combined, provide businesses with comprehensive data security and control for analytic workloads.