Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 4)

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 of opportunities but, at the same time, open up privacy issues. According to recent reports and studies, 51% are saying that security is the most important issue. The monetization of data and data breaches are driving the need for security. >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 3)

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 and payment data. It’s a challenge when you have these different varieties of data. They’re looking for a solution that can fit the requirement, be flexible, and not disrupt their business processes. They also choose this new type of protection called data tokenization. These are three interesting use cases of our technology. >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 2)

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 large retailer. This is a company that needed to be compliant to the payment card industry standard. It’s a $4 billion retail company operating in more than 30 States. They need to secure sensitive data in several large databases restricting access from administrators and power users. >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 1)

Big Data platforms like Hortonworks and Cloudera use a third party player to address security issues. Protegrity offers one of those key building blocks of a secure Big Data platform. This interview delves into the security issues that customers are grappling with.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Protegrity.

Ulf Mattsson: I’m the Chief Technology Officer at Protegrity. A little bit about my background, I worked for 20 years at IBM in software development and database security. I left IBM over a decade ago to design the Protegrity database security product and

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10 Thought Leaders in Big Data

We have a long-running Thought Leaders in Big Data series on the 1M/1M blog. We started publishing the series back in 2012. Over the last couple of years, we have featured many of the innovators in the field. Of those, today, I will introduce you to ten who I think would be interesting for you to get to know.

Let me explain why I have chosen these ones in particular.

The significant opportunities for entrepreneurship currently exist in the application layer of the Big Data industry. The platforms and plumbing are in place.

Today, the most exciting opportunities are going to be available to those entrepreneurs who harness the power of big data, but couple it with intense domain knowledge in specific areas of business.
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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software (Part 1)

Unstructured Data Analysis coupled with Machine Learning is the most exciting area of business right now. In this interview, we discuss how Ulf and his team apply the process to Contract Analysis.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to you. Tell us a bit about your background as well as Seal Software.

Ulf Zetterberg: I am the co-founder of Seal Software. I’ve been spending most of my time around content management. I have a passion for transformation of data to information, so it becomes useful and valuable inside a business process. I’m a serial >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of OntoText (Part 5)

Atanas Kiryakov: The purpose of maintaining an online process is to be able to classify and enrich content with more metadata. A typical media website contains 10 or 20 categories like specific regions in the world, which means there would typically be 10 to 30 web pages that are pretty much maintained by them. Their editors make decisions on which articles, materials, and pictures get promoted and presented on each of these web pages.

What BBC did back in 2010 with the help of our technology was make a website where they have 800 different pages. They had one page for each team, each group of teams, each player, each coach, and stadium. Basically, all sorts of objects that had something to do with the World Cup were maintained automatically. There is >>>

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of OntoText (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Basically, you’re addressing regulatory issues for pharmaceutical companies. Then you’re helping some of these media companies reconcile and clarify their databases and perhaps even enhance their databases, which are then accessed by their clients. That’s the other use case that you talked about, right?

Atanas Kiryakov: Yes. We also help pharmaceutical companies with drug development. The other application is in regulatory enquiries. It’s a cross between applications related to compliance and regulation that we also have with other clients. To give you another example, we have a project called Open Policy that recently won the innovation award of Washington Post in April 2014. >>>