Sramana Mitra: What is the status of that capability in the Big Data industry today to be able to achieve that balance between protection, privacy, and analytics? Ulf Mattsson: Larger companies and companies providing Big Data distributions like Cloudera and Hortonworks are actually involving third-party security companies like Protegrity to fill the security gaps. For example,
Ulf Mattsson: We’ve seen studies talking about how Big Data analytics can revolutionize the way the Internet did many years ago. I’ve seen figures saying that 63% are using it to enhance customer relationships, 58% are using these capabilities to redefine the product and product development, and 56% are using it to change their operations. These create a lot
Ulf Mattsson: Let’s look at another interesting use case. It’s a travel product company. It’s an airline-owned company in the US that is providing ticket distribution and financial settlements for 135 airlines and 23,000 travel agents. They have more than $65 billion per year in settlement. Their primary issue was to protect sensitive customer data
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take maybe three customers from three different segments. Let’s double-click down on understanding how they’re using your technology. Ulf Mattsson: I would like to mention that we do provide services in the architecture and data flow, which is very important to be able to find the right solution in. Let’s take a
The original PGP Inc., a startup based on “Pretty Good Privacy” encryption software, was acquired by McAfee in 1997. In 2002, McAfee sold PGP’s assets to former PGP executives after being unable to harvest profits from the unit. But in 2002 the encryption market began to take off, and co-founders Philip Dunkelberger and Alex Doll