Data protection company Piiano announced the release of its cloud-based Piiano Vault on Wednesday. It is a secure database intended to help businesses safely store and use sensitive personal data and comply with evolving privacy regulations.
Enterprises today face the challenge of protecting data from breaches due to high-profile data breaches and increasing regulatory and compliance requirements. A recent Piiano survey found that protecting personally identifiable information (PII) is a priority for 45% of businesses, but operating at scale requires embedding security into code projects. It requires the work of a developer tasked with This is a huge undertaking and many developers struggle to retrofit privacy and security into existing environments and workflows.
“The safety and protection of customer data remains in disarray as corporate R&D outpaces security efforts, and as a result is highly vulnerable to potential breach.”Building Cloud Applications starts with the infrastructure developers use: Piiano encourages security and privacy by design, and Piiano Vault is a privacy-conscious and secure database that saves companies thousands of hours of development time, Instead, they simply use APIs when it comes to storing and consuming data.Today, many organizations are unaware of the extent of PII sprawl, and now they have secure databases to store sensitive data. Well done, Piiano enables developers to act alongside CISOs as the new data guardians.”
Scott Bledsoe, CEO of Theon Technology, said Piiano’s approach to embedding granular privacy and security controls into the database is unique.
“With many companies, such as Protegrity and Immuta, layering privacy and security controls on top of existing databases, it will be interesting to see if the market appreciates embedded security controls bundled as part of the database itself. Come on.” Bledsoe.
Jack Poller, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, added that Piano Vault combines two key security activities: fine-grained access control and encryption/tokenization into one database solution.
“Because Piiano Vault is purpose-built for security, the solution includes a policy engine that allows developers and other stakeholders to apply the appropriate granularity to protect data and maintain compliance. We can quickly and easily define flexible access and visibility controls,” said Poller. “This means that developers can spend their valuable and limited time, effort, and resources adding functionality to their applications instead of implementing data security measures.”