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Research-based Best Practices for Digital Transformation
With more and more enterprises moving critical workloads to the cloud, traditional approaches to data management, privacy and data security just won’t cut it anymore.
Why Your Organization Needs Universal Data Authorization
In today’s day and age, data breaches and leaks are seemingly inevitable – but they don’t have to be catastrophic. Not if you have a universal data authorization platform.
Critical Data Security and Governance Trends for 2021
Download this report to learn Okera’s CEO Nick Halsey and CTO Nong Li trends they believe will shape the data landscape in 2021.
Successful Cloud Migration for Financial Services
Download this webinar to learn how to plan a strategic cloud migration for financial services companies.
vArmour and Okera Joint Solution Brief
Enterprises are currently struggling to navigate a perfect storm within their IT infrastructures, which has the potential to compromise their security posture, exacerbate business risk, and disrupt their regulatory compliance.
How to Enforce Fine-grained Access Control on Amazon EMR without IAM Roles
In this webinar, learn about the IAM challenge on Amazon EMR, why open-source governance solutions don’t scale, and see a demo of Okera’s dynamic enforcement of fine-grained access control that removes the need to manage IAM roles on each cluster.
Six Critical Requirements for Scaling Secure Data Access
Download this whitepaper to learn how to design an access control framework that will accelerate time-to-insight on your modern data platform – without compromising on security.
How Data and Analytics are Transforming the Healthcare Industry
Learn how to migrate to the cloud with secure data access for your AWS-based analytic stack in this on-demand conversation between Magellan Health, AWS, and Okera.
Best Practices to Accelerate Enterprise Data Governance with Data Access and Protection
Learn how to leverage data governance to scale enterprise collaboration across data security, infrastructure, and privacy in this on-demand webinar, presented as a conversation with Okera and First San Francisco Partners.
On-Demand | Moving Targets: Top Priorities for CDOs
Tune into the Bloor Group Briefing Room where Eric Kavanaugh and Nong Li discuss the critical role of the CDO.
Okera & Domino: Speeding Business Outcomes with Data Science
The potential for data and analytics to radically change the way businesses operate is arguably limitless.
Okera’s Collibra Integration
The Okera and Collibra integration closes the gap between business governance and central IT, enabling faster time-to-insight on new data and increased business agility.
Automate Policy Management with Okera & Collibra
Watch this short demo showing how access policies can be defined in Okera leveraging attribute classifications from Collibra.
Scaling Data Access
Watch this informative webinar, originally presented at the 2020 MITCDOIQ conference, to learn how to build a successful and replicable access control framework for the new cloud-first and remote working world.
How to Implement Data De-Identification for the Modern Analytics Platform
Watch this webinar to learn how and why your organization should be using data de-identification to maximize the value of its data assets.
Evolution of the Modern Data Platform
Consistent policy enforcement for advanced analytic tools is only going to get harder.
Technical vs. Business Metadata Management
One question we get from prospects evaluating our software is whether or not we provide a full data catalog service.
5 Things to Help Data Governance Leaders Succeed in Digital Transformation
Why is data governance so hard – and why do we need it now more than ever to successfully transform our businesses? Learn more in this webinar with Gokula Mishra.
Okera Platform Demo
Watch this end to end demo of Okera’s Secure Data Access Platform, from data discovery and tagging to policy creation to auditing.
Audit User Activity and Understand Access
Watch this short demo of Okera’s centralized auditing capabilities, including a feature to help data stewards maintain least privilege access.
Scale Access Control with ABAC policies
Watch a short demo from Okera’s 2.1 release: define and manage fine-grained ABAC policies without any code.
Scaling Access Control for the Enterprise: The Power of ABAC
In this webinar, you will learn about the challenges with existing access control solutions, as well as our three building blocks for scaling access control.
5 Things Every Data Analytics Leader Should Consider
In this webinar with Gokula Mishra, you’ll learn five key factors that can make your data journey successful, including how to create a data-driven culture, and mitigating inherent risks.
New Release: De-identification for ABAC, No-Code Policy Builder
As I prepared to write this blog about Okera’s latest release, it seemed almost disingenuous not to acknowledge all the things that have changed in our world – and continue to change almost every day – due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Okera Financial Services Case Study
Okera enables a Fortune 500 financial services company to expand its data platform by securing access to data at scale.
3 Ways to Justify Data Lake Investment
Download this ebook to learn how Okera Spotlight can help you justify your data lake investment with insights into data usage and access.
A Practical Guide to Data Obfuscation
One thing I have learned working with Big Data, and Hadoop in particular, over the last thirteen years is that data is truly an important asset of any organization, no matter its size.
How to Secure Data Access at Scale for the Modern Analytics Platform
Watch this webinar to learn how the promise of “volume and variety” in the data lake turned into a problem, and the core capabilities needed to provide secure data access at scale.
Securing Data Access on the Modern Enterprise Analytics Platform
The modern enterprise data analytics platform is sophisticated, which means ensuring secure access to the data is complex.
Bucketing in Hive Example With Okera
Apache Hive is an open-source data warehouse system used to query and analyze large datasets. Data in Apache Hive can be categorized into tables, partitions, and buckets.
451 Research Report
Download this 451 Research Report to learn how Okera reduces friction for data-driven initiatives with global data access management.
Key Trends 2020: Cloud Data Lake Adoption and More Focus on Data Regulations
Okera, the leading active data management solution that enables companies to discover, audit, and protect data at scale, today made its industry predictions for 2020.
Securing Amazon S3 Data Lakes
Download this whitepaper to learn best practices for securing your Amazon S3 data lake.
What Is Data Lake Security?
The main principle of data lake security is ensuring that users only have access to the data they need – only specific files, or specific data within a file – as defined by the company’s security and access policies for the data lake.
My AWS re:Invent Experience as a Woman in Tech
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of representing Okera as an exhibiting sponsor of AWS re:Invent. This was the company’s second year at the show, but my first — in fact, it was my first time ever attending a trade show.
Scalable Governance for Your Big Data Enterprise
Govern Big Data without tension or compromise. Maximize the value of your data stores by increasing access, ensuring data protection, and monitoring usage.
Securing Azure Data Lakes
Download this whitepaper to learn best practices for securing your Azure data lake.
Gain Actionable Insights on Your Data Lake
During this webinar with a demo of Okera Spotlight, you will learn how to understand the usage of your data lake, especially for sensitive data, and receive actionable insights to maximize ROI.
Okera Spotlight
Hear the story behind the development of Okera Spotlight and see how it can be used to generate actionable data lake insights.
Okera Spotlight for AWS
Okera Spotlight solves one of the biggest challenges with managing an AWS data lake: getting visibility into usage and access patterns, especially for sensitive data.
Visualizing Tightly Controlled Data & Metadata Using Common BI Tools
Watch this webinar to learn how Okera can help visualize data and create custom reports about your data lake, and how to use certain datasets and detect the presence of sensitive data.
How to Control Access to Sensitive Data at Scale in Your Data Lake
Watch this webinar to learn how Okera can protect your sensitive data, including how to automate tagging of sensitive data and assign fine-grained security policies with obfuscation at scale.
CCPA Explained – Getting Prepared for Privacy Regulation in the US
Watch this webinar to understand the similarities and differences between CCPA and GDPR, and best practices for usage tracking, access control, and data cataloging.
Eliminating tension between data consumers, data owners, and compliance teams
Watch this webinar to learn how Okera delivers self-service, unified access control for data lakes to deliver business insights.
Between Data Governance and Agility, Choose Both
Watch this webinar to learn how to balance the evolving data privacy and regulatory requirements and the power of Big Data to avoid a trade-off between agility and governance.
Data Lakes: A Capability, Not Just a Technology Stack
Watch this webinar to learn how the definition of data lakes has evolved over the years with the paradigm of cloud computing.
Okera Active Data Access Platform
Okera solves one of the biggest challenges with heterogeneous, multi-vendor data platforms at scale: providing access to data for innovation while ensuring proper governance and compliance.
Okera for AWS Data Lakes
The Okera Active Data Access Platform unifies and manages access for your Amazon S3 data lake consumers across a multi-datastore and multi-tool environment.
Okera Pharmaceutical Case Study
Okera enables a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical company to protect patients’ data during drug discovery.
Okera Apparel Case Study
Okera drives business agility and solves for GDPR data security for one of the largest apparel manufacturers.
Okera for Azure Data Lakes
The Okera Active Data Access Platform unifies and manages access for your Microsoft Azure data lake consumers across a multi-datastore and multi-tool environment.
GDPR Ready Data Architecture
Compliance in the Age of GDPR: A unique opportunity to improve data architecture and strengthen customer relationships.
Okera Healthcare Case Study
Okera helps a Fortune 500 healthcare provider secure its data lake and protect sensitive data.
Unified Governance for Data Lakes
Download this whitepaper to learn about core capabilities and best practices for effective governance of data lakes.
Okera to Showcase New Product at AWS re:Invent
AWS re:Invent, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), has quickly become the leading customer and partner conference for the global cloud computing community.
Introducing Okera Spotlight – Data Lake Visibility and Insights
Over the last three years, we’ve helped our customers build and manage their data lakes. Some of them have just started their data lake journey, while others have large data lake environments with complex datasets that contain sensitive information.
Data Privacy in the Era of Regulation
Data privacy is not a new concept, but what recent regulations have introduced is the concept of consumers’ consent to use their data.
Protecting Sensitive Data
Protecting sensitive data is really about protecting the value of your company’s brand.
Data Lake Protection
Data lakes separate storage and compute to deliver numerous benefits to organizations. Protect your data lake with fine-grained access control and governance.
Okera for Azure Data Lakes
See how to use Okera to discover and protect sensitive data on Azure data lakes.
Okera for Access Control
See how to use Okera to create fine-grained access control policies.
Okera for Consent Management
See how to use Okera to manage users’ consent for the use of their data.
Okera Policy Builder
See how to use Okera’s visual policy builder to create and manage fine-grained access control policies.
Okera for Auditing
See how to use Okera to audit user activity on the data lake, especially for sensitive data.
Metadata in the Big Data Environment
Separating data from its metadata allows for scalability and flexibility, but has huge implications for security.
Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes
The future of enterprise data storage is in data lakes, possibly with certain applications staying in an on-prem warehouse.
What Inspired You to Start Okera?
CTO Nong Li’s perspective on why he believed there was a need for a company like Okera.
What Attracted You to Okera? VP of Sales
VP of Sales Ravi Ramachandran explains the problem he saw in the market and how he thinks Okera solves it.
What Unique Problems does Okera Address? VP of Sales
VP of Sales Ravi Ramachandran explains how Okera is unique in the market of data access control and governance.
The AWS IAM Conundrum and Okera’s Solution
A version of this article was originally posted on DZone. What you are reading now has been enhanced with more details around the suggested solution.
Learnings from 2019 MIT CDOIQ Symposium
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of representing Okera, as one of the partners of the 2019 MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (MITCDOIQ) Symposium in Cambridge, MA.
How to Connect Tableau Using a JDBC Standalone Configuration
One great benefit of the Okera platform is its client-compute flexibility. Today you can integrate a variety of tools — Python, EMR, Cloudera CDH, Databricks, Hive, Spark, Presto, and more — with an ODAS cluster.
Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for Data Lakes at Scale
Okera recently released Okera Active Data Access Platform (ODAP) 1.4. In this post, we’ll look at the following new data access control capabilities in this release.
Data Access Control & Governance for Enterprise ML/AI Adoption at Strata San Francisco.
Okera enjoyed an amazing Strata Data Conference in San Francisco, and we are particularly proud to be recognized with the Strata Award for Most Disruptive Startup.
Okera Heads to Strata SF + Introduces New Fine-grained Access Control for Unstructured Data
We’re headed to Strata San Francisco from March 25-28 to showcase the latest enhancements to Okera’s Active Data Access Platform.
Getting started on ODAS with PyOkera and Jupyter
At Okera we like to say “bring your own compute” to your ODAS-enabled data lake.
Leveraging PyOkera’s Usage of Client-Side Concurrency
PyOkera is our Python client library that provides customers with the ability to integrate their LOB applications directly into an Okera cluster.
Apache Ranger – Data Access Control in the Cloud
Apache Ranger is an open-source project for providing data access control in a Hadoop ecosystem. It is (now merged with Cloudera as) a complete solution for effecting data governance and access controls in the cloud.
Happy New Year from Okera
Happy New Year to you! I spent time over the holidays reflecting on 2018 and planning for 2019. I wanted to share some reflections and some thoughts on what we anticipate in the fast moving world of data lakes for 2019.
User Guide: Replacing ‘componentWillReceiveProps’ with ‘getderivedstatefromprops’
React is in the process of deprecating a lifecycle method we used quite a bit at Okera, namely componentWillReceiveProps.
AWS Lake Formation – Data Lakes Made Easy
At AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, we talked to more than 1,000 folks who were interested in what Okera is offering.
Okera Introduces Intelligent Schema Management for Amazon S3 Data Lakes
Today we unveiled our new intelligent schema management that automates dataset discovery, schema inference, policy assignment, and governance for data lakes.
Okera Expands Executive Team With Ravi Ramachandran as VP of Sales
There’s exciting news at Okera today. We’re expanding our executive team with the appointment of Ravi Ramachandran to Vice President of Sales.
Okera to Showcase New Data Lake Security and Governance Technology at AWS re:Invent 2018
We’re headed to AWS re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas from November 26-30.
Using Java Lambda Expressions
In Java 8, Lambda expressions were introduced, which is Java’s first step towards support for functional programming.
Joining Okera as a New Grad
The opportunities currently available out of college are plentiful if a computer science student has the right strategy.
Modern SDLC @ Okera
One of the important goals for software organizations is to create more efficient, repeatable and predictable processes that serve as a long term sustainable methodology for the business.
What’s new in Okera Active Data Access Platform 1.2
Today we released the latest update to Okera Active Data Access Platform.
Using JWTs To Secure Your App
When writing client/server applications, it is often necessary that a service restricts data to a set of trusted users.
OKERA at Strata Data Conference
Okera is pleased to announce we will be in New York next week for the Strata Data Conference.
Access Control Views – Best Practices
This blog post continues the topic of Schema Design Best Practices and focuses on the access control view layer.
Database Schema Design Examples & Best Practices
Database schema design is an important part of achieving successful data organization and optimal data management.
Okera, fka Cerebro Data, steps out with a new name, new funding, new product
In recent years, we have witnessed a massive transformation in the kinds of technologies available to companies to work with large amounts of data.
Reusable Redux with REST
At Cerebro, our goal is to give our users as many tools as possible for accessing data.
Modern Self-Service Data Platforms
Last week at AWS re:Invent, I heard several customers talk about how they are building data platforms in the cloud.
What I learned from my design thinking internship at an enterprise startup
When I first moved to San Francisco and started my job search, I began to feel that there wasn’t much out there that would allow me to use my full skill set from design thinking to visual design, yet still learn and grow.
How to Kerberize Your Grizzly REST Server
If you are already aware of the Grizzly framework, you can skip forward to the Kerberization process.