Bart Vandekerckhove

Curious on how to scale privacy & security in the age of Cloud | co-founder at Raito.io | kind of stumbles into opportunities

What we can learn from the Hot Topic Data Breach

The Hot Topic Data Breach learns us the importance of data security for a safe digital transformation.

Monday Morning Data Chat - Data Security Deep Dive

Bart had the opportunity to sit down with Joe Reis and Matt Housley to discuss Data Security in depth on the Monday Morning Data Chat.

The Rise of Data Governance Engineering - With Charlotte Ledoux

In our 9th episode of Access to Analytics we explore with Charlotte Ledoux how data governance engineering enables scalable, automated solutions to ensure data quality and data security in today’s complex data ecosystems.

What Disney kicking out Slack means for your data platform

Disney kicked out Slack after a major data breach in July. There is an import lesson here for data platform teams. How can we reap the productivity benefits of cloud data and AI platforms without excessive data security risks?

What the new Gartner Hype Cycles mean for Data Security

How should Data Security adapt to an ever evolving data landscape? Let's look at the latest Hype Cycles to better understand.

What is being said about LLM+RAG at Blackhat

The security risks of LLM+RAG are the talk of town at Blackhat. What are those risks and what can you do to address them?

The age of Chaos in cybersecurity

Are we entering the age of chaos in cybersecurity? It feels like every day there is a new cyber incident, the costs of which are accelerating rapidly. In 2024, the average cost of a data breach went up by a staggering 10%, which is the biggest increase ever. More incidents and bigger losses.

What CCPA's latest draft regulation could mean for data security

Privacy regulators worldwide are responding to the rapidly increasing number of cyber security incidents. On July 15, the CCPA proposed a regulation for cybersecurity audits which will impose strict cybersecurity controls on organizations processing personal information of California residents.

Data Security for Data Mesh

Lots of organisations are implementing Data Mesh in one shape or another. This offers a good opportunity to revise their data security framework and make it future-proof.

3 lessons from the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2024

Data Platform Teams should prepare for increased scrutiny from their CISO’s who are getting concerned with the lack of visibility into how entitlements are used.

What the Snowflake Data Breaches teach us about data security

The recent data breaches of customer Snowflake instances show the importance of good data security.

Data Security for Data Products II

As data teams are increasingly becoming software teams, we need to take a more holistic approach to access management for data products that covers access to data, infrastructure, and code repositories, which integrates well with the data development process.

Data Security for Data Products

Data Products have the potential to significantly improve the trustworthiness, user experience, and speed of data development by applying best practices from DevOps to data development processes. However, by using outdated access management workflows data teams introduce bottlenecks in their processes that result in huge productivity costs that can have a detrimental impact on the success of your data initiatives.

Data Security for LLM + RAG

GenAI holds the promise to increase productivity by providing readily available insights on your organisation's data. However, without proper controls, the privacy and security risks significantly outweigh any potential rewards.

What 2024 will hold for Data Security

As we’re preparing to celebrate New Year’s eve, it is clear that GenAI will continue to dominate most of the discussions in 2024 for Data and IT leaders. It has the potential to make everyone in the organization data-driven by truly democratizing access to insights. However, data security risks are a major hurdle for its adoption, and as the dust settles, Data Leaders will have to prepare for the below key developments in 2024.

The evolution of Data, AI, and Security

Heads of Data will have to partner with the CISO to solve the new privacy and security risks coming from applying genAI. Read more to learn more about those risks and how they can be managed.

How the NIS2 Directive will impact Data Security

As of October 2024, an estimated 160.000 European companies will have to comply with the NIS 2 Directive, which will impose significant cybersecurity requirements. In this article we give an in-depth analysis of the NIS 2 Directive, what it means for data security, and what data teams can do to comply with the Directive.

23andMe's business case for better data security management

We explain how the recent class action suit against 23andMe makes a strong business case for better data security management.

A business case for better data security management

We all agree that data security is important, but it is not easy to convince management to prioritize it over other important projects. In this article we provide you with the tools to make a convincing business case for data security.

Databricks x Raito: Data Security at Scale

Raito for Databricks governs data security for organizations that rely on data & analytics to compete, but also have to comply with stringent privacy & security regulations and respect customer trust.

What the CPRA update could mean for your Data Security

A first analysis of how the upcoming cybersecurity audits and risk assessments regulations will impact data security for businesses that have to comply with the CCPA.

How data contracts make your data trustworthy and secure - With Chad Sanderson

In this seventh episode of Access to Analytics we sit down with Chad to learn how data contracts will finally bring the standardisation to create the trust we need to work with data.

What NIST CSF 2 means for YOUR data security

The upcoming NIST CSF 2.0 will significantly impact organizations' data security management. See what it means for your organization, and what you'll have to do.

Announcing: Raito Insights!

Get unparalleled insights in data access & usage across your data sources with Raito Insights!

How Allianz manages Access to its new Insights As A Service - With Francesco Mucio

In this fifth episode of Access to Analytics we talk with Francesco Mucio about how Allianz provides insights to the insurance ecosystem as a service, and how access is managed in those services.

Monitor data access & usage for free!

Change is hard and it starts with knowing where you are. That’s why Raito is announcing a free version that lets you monitor data access & usage to help you assess your current state, and monitor change

How Data Mesh, Data Contracts and Data Access interact at PayPal - With Jean-Georges Perrin

In this fourth episode of Access to Analytics we talk with Jean-Georges Perrin, also known as jgp, about how Data Mesh, Data Contracts and Data Access Management interact at PayPal.

Take Control of Your Data: How Flix is Managing Data Access - With Taras Slipets

In this third episode of Access to Analytics we sit down with Taras Slipets, Staff Data Engineer at Flix, to discuss what the tech stack looks like and how data access controls are managed.

Put a curfew on access with Time Bound Data Access Management

Did you know that only 1% of permissions granted are actually used? As companies are moving their analytical workflows to the cloud, the risk of excessive privileges is becoming real. Bart explains how Raito helps limit excessive privileges with Time-Bound Access Management

Terraform for Data Access Management

Terraform is an easy way to get started with data access management, but becomes very hard to scale when data consumption starts to grow.

Bart & Wannes' Data Predictions for 2023

Bart, Raito CEO, and Wannes, Head of Product, combine to share their top 5 predictions on what will happen in the data space in 2023. Continued investment in data and analytics might be expected, but how will this play out?

The Conway Pincer Movement for Data Access Management

Handing out the keys for data access has changed drastically over the last few decades. So how has this journey actually gone, what were the learnings at each stage, and what have new regulations like GDPR actually done? Bart dives into the early days, then all-access innovation, through to the data compliance conundrum of PII data and tightening access controls - including where we believe access management needs to go to be a true success.

The Comeback of Attribute Based Access Controls

ISO 27001 - the 2022 version. Security standards are now including privacy protection as a core part of new regulation updates. So what is changing, how big a part will Governance teams now play, and will this lead to some old frameworks reappearing?

SSO - an open door to all your data

More external cloud assets were breached than on-premise assets in 2021, and data breaches are happening at a regularity never seen before. So what is the main weak spot for businesses? And how can you reduce that risk? The summary of the summary - people are a problem. For the solution - read on...

The rise and fall of crappy data products

Rising interest rates will have an impact on your data products, and the way you do data governance.

How the CDO can scale privacy & security

In the age of cloud, privacy and security professionals are feeling overwhelmed when trying to protect their organisations’ data. However, they might find an unexpected ally in the CDO.

How configuring access controls with Terraform scripts prevents you from scaling your data mesh

Let’s discuss the 4 ways that access management through Terraform scripts prevents you from implementing federated computational governance.