Database Security

SAP Data Custodian

SAP Data Custodian is an innovative SaaS application that enables governance, risk, and compliance for enterprise data in public clouds. It provides visibility over the ways data is stored, moved, and accessed in the cloud, enforces data protection policies, and helps maintain compliance…

Brace Yourselves: A New HeatWave is Coming

I’ve always been a bit baffled by the enduring popularity of MySQL. I mean, it’s great and we have been using it in many internal projects for years, but what makes it so popular even nowadays, when the competition from other vendors, commercial or open-source, is so strong? And…

A Unified Approach to Modern Data Protection

Data is the lifeblood of business and government. Therefore, data breaches can be devastating in terms of disruption, damage to reputation, remediation costs, and data protection fines. But the ongoing high number of breaches shows that what many organizations are doing to protect their…

Why Your Organization Needs Data-centric Security

Database and Big Data Security

As more and more companies are embracing digital transformation, the challenges of securely storing, processing, and exchanging digital data continue to multiply. This KuppingerCole Buyer's Compass will provide you with questions to ask vendors, criteria to select your vendor, and…

Fighting Data Friction, One Battle at a Time

Data friction is arguably the biggest obstacle for every organization on its journey to achieve optimal business productivity. Even if you have not heard the term before, you’ve definitely faced its consequences in one form or another (most probably, even in multiple different forms).…

Oracle Data Safe

Oracle Data Safe is a cloud-based service that improves the security of Oracle databases on-premises and in the cloud by identifying risky configuration, users, and sensitive data, which allows customers to closely monitor user activities and ensure data protection and compliance.

Symphony Technology Group (STG) Acquires McAfee Enterprise Business

STG announced that they intend to acquire McAfee’s enterprise business for around $4B. The McAfee brand will continue to operate and focus on consumer cybersecurity. STG will pick up MVISION, Global Threat Intelligence, database security, unified endpoint security, CASB, CSPM, CWPP,…

Oracle’s Crypto-Secure Data Management

Oracle has unveiled new interesting capabilities in the Oracle database today, which they refer to as Immutable and Blockchain tables. While I am not entirely convinced by the names they have chosen, I can absolutely get behind the overall Crypto-secure data management concept that has…

Datenbank- und Big-Data-Sicherheit

Dieser Leadership Compass bietet einen Überblick über den Markt für Datenbank- und Big-Data-Sicherheitslösungen sowie einen Leitfaden und Empfehlungen für die Wahl von denjenigen Produkten zum Schutz und zur Verwaltung vertraulicher Daten, die Ihre Anforderungen am…

Database and Big Data Security

This Leadership Compass provides an overview of the market for database and big data security solutions along with guidance and recommendations for finding the sensitive data protection and governance products that best meet your requirements. We examine the broad range of technologies…

Oracle APEX – secure low-code application development platform

Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a low-code development platform that allows business users with limited IT skills to design and maintain scalable enterprise applications, storing their data securely in the Oracle Autonomous Database. 

Enterprise Databases in the Cloud

This Leadership Compass provides an overview of the enterprise databases offered primarily as managed services to enable modern cloud-native application architectures as well as data processing and analytics at scale. We examine both the portfolios of large cloud service providers and…

KuppingerCole Analyst Chat: Enterprise Databases in the Cloud

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski talk about making the right choice of a database engine to power your next cloud project.

Analyst Chat #16: Enterprise Databases in the Cloud

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski talk about making the right choice of a database engine to power your next cloud project.

Sep 13 - 16, 2021: European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021

The European Identity and Cloud Conference returns fully digitalized, reacting to the global pandemic. We have collected a lot of experience in virtual conferencing throughout 2020 to be able to offer you a safe and hygienic event experience – on-site, virtual, and hybrid.

Will 2020 Be the Year of Oracle Cloud?

Recently I had an opportunity to attend the Next Generation Cloud Summit, an event organized by Oracle in Seattle, WA for industry analysts to learn about the latest developments in Oracle Cloud strategy. This was the first Oracle’s analyst summit in Seattle and coincidentally my first…

Meet the Next-Generation Oracle

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 has just wrapped yesterday, and if there is a single word that can describe my impressions of it, that would be “different”. Immediately noticeable was the absence of the traditional Oracle Red spilling into the streets around the Moscone Center in San…

Advisory Note: Demystifying the Blockchain: What Makes a Blockchain Useful to a Firm? - 80301

Blockchain technology – as the hype advertises – can be a value-adding solution for businesses and individuals. However, it is necessary to separate blockchain’s functionality from its fame before a firm can find an appropriate use case. This report deconstructs the main…

Executive View: Oracle Data Safe - 80076

Oracle Data Safe is a cloud-based service that improves Oracle database security by identifying risky configuration, users and sensitive data, which allows customers to closely monitor user activities and ensure data protection and compliance for their cloud databases.

Leadership Compass: Database and Big Data Security - 79015

This Leadership Compass provides an overview of the market for database and big data security solutions along with guidance and recommendations for finding the sensitive data protection and governance products that best meet your requirements. We examine the broad range of technologies…

Is Multilayered Cyber-Defense Out Already? Against Rising Breaches and Vulnerabilities, Data-Centric Security to the Rescue!

As the growing number of high-profile data breaches indicates, even the largest companies are still struggling with implementing consistent enterprise-wide information security measures. Setting up various security tools for numerous different applications, services, and heterogeneous…

Leadership Brief: Data Security and Governance (DSG) for Big Data and BI Environments - 80109

Increased relevance of BigData and BI environments in supporting business decisions requires a broad set of data points to be collected throughout the lifetime of an application and users’ interaction with it. Security and risk management leaders must ensure that the risks emerging…

May 23, 2019: Is Multilayered Cyber-Defense Out Already? Against Rising Breaches and Vulnerabilities, Data-Centric Security to the Rescue!

As the growing number of high-profile data breaches indicates, even the largest companies are still struggling with implementing consistent enterprise-wide information security measures. Setting up various security tools for numerous different applications, services, and heterogeneous…

Executive View: Thales Vormetric Application Crypto Suite - 79069

Encryption, tokenization, and data masking are essential capabilities needed in today’s highly regulated environments. Protecting sensitive information requires these capabilities, beyond just network and file-level encryption. Vormetric Application Crypto Suite from Thales eSecurity…

Executive View: comforte AG SecurDPS Enterprise - 80007

comforte AG SecurDPS Enterprise is a highly scalable data protection platform that combines stateless tokenization technology and hardened fault-tolerant architecture to ensure security and compliance of sensitive data in mission-critical business applications.

Can Autonomous Improve Security Posture?

Last week I attended the Oracle Open World Europe 2019 in London. At this event Andrew Sutherland VP of technology told us that security was one of the main reasons why customers were choosing the Oracle autonomous database. This is interesting for two reasons firstly it shows that…

Impressions from the Oracle OpenWorld

Recently I was in San Francisco again, attending the Oracle OpenWorld for the second time. Just like last year, I cannot but commend the organizers for making the event even bigger, more informative and more convenient to attend – by all means not a small feat when you consider the…

Dec 18, 2018: Online Forms Are Out of Date – There Are New Ways to Sign Up Customers

An extreme lack of innovation has led to online forms dominating online buying for over two decades. The latest identity platforms use fast, easy, and secure technology to streamline customer sign-ups and simplify data.

Executive View: Delphix Dynamic Data Platform - 79010

Die Delphix Dynamic Data Platform ist eine integrierte Plattform für die Verwaltung, Absicherung und Replizierung von Daten in lokalen, cloudbasierten und Hybrid-Umgebungen. Sie kombiniert eine hochleistungsfähige Virtualisierung mit integriertem Data Masking und automatisierten…

Executive View: Delphix Dynamic Data Platform - 79010

Delphix Dynamic Data Platform is an integrated platform for managing, securing and replicating data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Combining high-performance virtualization, integrated masking and automated self-service workflows, it significantly increases efficiency of…

Securing your Hybrid IT Environment with Privileged Access Management

As your business grows, so does your IT footprint – both on-premises and in the cloud. This adds to the overall complexity of managing access to the newly acquired IT assets and applications in addition to existing ones. The conventional approaches of managing privileged access using…

Datendiebstahl, Malware, DSGVO - Unstrukturierte Daten Zwischen Kollaboration & Compliance

Die Mengen an digitalen Daten, die Organisationen nun speichern und verarbeiten müssen, wachsen exponentiell. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Digitalisierung bestehender Geschäftsprozesse - für viele Unternehmen sind die Daten selbst zum wertvollsten Gut geworden, das sie vor…

European Identity & Cloud Awards Ceremony

European Identity & Cloud Awards Ceremony

Martin Kuppinger - Microservices Architectures: Making IAM Hybrid

In recent times, an increasing number of vendors announced a migration of their products towards microservices architectures. Some renovate their existing on premises IAM tools, others build new solutions with a new architectural approach. Factually, the idea isn’t that new, but the…

Jeff Jonas - Do you Know What You Know About the Data Subject?

GDPR obligates organizations to provide data subjects with access to their personal data. To comply, companies must be able to answer a seemingly innocuous but frighteningly difficult question: What do we know about the data subject? Further, organizations must respond to Data Subject…

Tim Hobbs - What Connects DevOps & IAM

IAM products are highly configurable systems tailored to the diverse needs of customer environments and applications. Modern applications require short development cycles and IAM systems that can be adjusted at the same pace. Modern data centers are configuration-driven, resilient…

Joy Chik - Planning for Tomorrow: Connecting Identities for People, Processes, and Things

Social, economic and technological changes are creating urgent new requirements for enterprise identity that enable interconnected digital systems. These new use cases require a governance framework that is consistent, integrated and efficiently managed. It also needs to provide increased…

Dr. Torsten George - Zero Trust: Solving IT Security’s Identity Crisis

Although companies are constantly increasing their cybersecurity budgets, this does not seem to help much: each day we learn about new large-scale data breaches. Considering that over 80% of hacking-related breaches leverage compromised user credentials, it’s mindboggling why so many…

Naresh Persaud - How to Enable Trust with Interoperable & Shared Credentials

The focus of digital identity for consumers and enterprise is to remove silos, minimize redundant effort, enable better collaboration and provide a foundation for regulatory compliance. The challenge is that shared credentials for both commercial and public-sector organizations will require…

Prof. Dr. Heiko Beier - Is it Facebook's End Game? Why Social Networks as we know them Today will not Survive

The real problem behind the recent Facebook scandal is not primarily that a company like Cambridge Analytica has "gained" access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users and misused them for political manipulation. It is the business model of social networks itself: Letting…

Christopher Spanton - Blockchain and the Business of Identity

Identity and Access Management (IAM) within an enterprise environment presents complex challenges for any business. While new technologies, such as blockchain, have the potential to help solve some of these challenges, today bringing blockchain into solution oriented discussions can merely…

Mo Ahddoud - SGN Securing Shared Credentials at The Heart of Digital Transformation

The future of IT security will depend on CISOs who are brave enough to build a new security model that is both innovative and unconventional. Gas distribution company, SGN, is blazing a trail that every company can follow. As a UK, critical infrastructure company SGN’s cloud-first…

Patrick Parker - The AI and Robotic Process Automation Revolution and the Upcoming Redesign of IAM

The AI and Robotic Process Automation revolutions are in full swing with record growth in both sectors as well as an explosion of new startups in this space. Not to be left behind, existing vendors are rushing to heed the call of AI and automation by sprucing up there existing product…

Martin Kuppinger - The Future Model of Identity: Blockchain ID and the Digital Transformation

Distributed Ledger Technologies ("Blockchain") are the foundation for the most disruptive changes to business we are either already observing or that are on the road to becoming a reality. Based on these technologies, both new business models and fundamental changes to established models…

Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl - Unchaining Blockchain

Blockchain is much more than the technology behind its still most successful application – the Bitcoin. One of its key attributes is the immutable storage of information. Besides other applications, this enables trustful online business between two or more individuals – without…

Ralf Oestereich - We will Disrupt You

We will Disrupt You - Are AI, Blockchain, IoT a Blessing or Curse for an Insurance Company?

Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders - Digital Identities and Blockchain: Experiments and Use Cases @ ABNAMRO

ABNAMRO runs over 30 blockchain experiments, also involving digital identity capabilities. Co-operation has been set –up across various coalitions, and use cases are running a lot wider than just the banking and payments industry. Academia, building-, and shipping industries are also…

Dr. Sridhar Muppidi - Identity Meets Fraud Protection to Establish Digital Trust

In this session, we will introduce a framework to establish digital trust based on capabilities from fraud protection and Identity. This will quickly and transparently establish a trusted, frictionless digital relationship for your customers, employees, and business partners. The session…

Kim Cameron - The Laws of Identity on the Blockchain

Keynote at the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2018

Jason Rose - Realizing the full potential of Consumer Identity

Customer Experience is Everything and Everything is Digital. Digital transformation is now the center of marketing, advertising and sales strategy across every industry and region, with today’s consumers demanding a seamless and relevant experience across online and offline channels…

Jackson Shaw - Fire Safety and Cyber-Security – Smoke Detectors are Not Enough

It takes most businesses over 6 months to detect a breach on their network. And while smoke detectors are proven to halve the death rate by fire, saving thousands of lives each year, detection is sometimes too late to prevent many buildings from burning to the ground. So imagine if it…

Eve Maler - The Evolution of Identity and its Importance for our Digital Lives

Identity is as old as mankind and adapted very well to its changing environments. From a simple look that determines who you are to a high frequency of multi-factor vehicle-to-vehicle authentication in autonomous driving - with Digital Transformation, Identity in digital form has become the…

Carmine Auletta - Identity & Digital Trust

Trust is essential for a society to function. It’s even more critical in a digital society where transactions take place between parties that can only rely on each other supplied digital Identity. eIDAS Regulation provides – for the first time – a clear, universal and…

Lukas Praml - Your Mobile Identity: Blockchain Ain't no Swiss Army Knife

Digital identity solutions are very wide spread and everybody is using them on a day to day basis. Mainly it can be distinguished between state issued IDs/eIDs which lack usability and are therefore not as successful as hoped and self-claimed or self-established eIDs (sometimes stored in…

Jun 28, 2018: Securing your Hybrid IT Environment with Privileged Access Management

As your business grows, so does your IT footprint – both on-premises and in the cloud. This adds to the overall complexity of managing access to the newly acquired IT assets and applications in addition to existing ones. The conventional approaches of managing privileged access using…

May 14 - 17, 2019: European Identity & Cloud Conference 2019

Come to the place where the Digital Transformation is happening. The European Identity & Cloud Conference, held from May 14-17, 2019, offers a mixture of best practice discussions, visionary presentations, and networking opportunities with a future-oriented community. More than 950 thought…

Executive View: Oracle Database Security Assessment - 70965

This report provides an executive summary of Oracle’s Database Security capabilities based on recently published KuppingerCole research. It covers both the company’s traditional database security solutions and the innovative Autonomous Database cloud platform.

Jun 19, 2018: Datendiebstahl, Malware, DSGVO - Unstrukturierte Daten Zwischen Kollaboration & Compliance

Die Mengen an digitalen Daten, die Organisationen nun speichern und verarbeiten müssen, wachsen exponentiell. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Digitalisierung bestehender Geschäftsprozesse - für viele Unternehmen sind die Daten selbst zum wertvollsten Gut geworden, das sie vor Lecks und…

Without Prosecution, There Is No Protection

The Equifax data breach saga continues to unfold. In late 2017, the company admitted it had suffered significant data loss starting in March of last year. There were likely multiple data theft events over a number of months. At some point in May, they notified a small group of customers but…

2018 – the Turning Point for Social Networks

The Facebook data privacy story continues to be in the headlines this week. For many of us in IT, this event is not really a surprise. The sharing of data from social media is not a data breach, it’s a business model. Social media developers make apps (often as quizzes and games) that…

Whitepaper: GDPR Herausforderungen mit Delphix meistern - 70368

Mit der neuen Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (GDPR) führt die EU strenge Kontrollen bezüglich der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten von EU-Bürgern sowie hohe Geldstrafen bei Nicht-Einhaltung eben dieser ein. Die Compliance der Grundverordnung erfordert kostenintensive…

Whitepaper: Meeting GDPR Challenges with Delphix - 70368

GDPR introduces stringent controls over the processing of PII relating to people resident in the EU with high penalties for non-compliance.  Compliance requires costly controls that can be justified for processing of PII with direct business benefits.  However, using PII for…

Free Tools That Can Save Millions? We Need More of These

When IT visionaries give presentations about the Digital Transformation, they usually talk about large enterprises with teams of experts working on exciting stuff like heterogeneous multi-cloud application architectures with blockchain-based identity assurance and real-time behavior…

Executive View: SAP HANA Platform Security - 70272

SAP HANA Platform securely supports the IT applications and services needed by organizations to achieve digital transformation as well as the traditional IT systems of record. It offers a high - performance database through in - memory processing and provides enterprise grade security…