Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2023. Read them in this 15th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
An Evolution of the Data Security Mindset in 2023
By Moritz Plassnig, Chief Product Officer, Immuta
The rapid shift of data from on-premises to
the cloud is spurring one of the greatest cybersecurity challenges to date.
Organizations are flush with data, and despite having a full arsenal of tools
at their disposal for protecting said data in the cloud, the acceleration of
data sharing is bringing traditional data management to a breaking point.
My colleague and CEO, Matthew Carroll,
predicts that in 2023, the proliferation of cloud players such as Snowflake,
Databricks, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and other cloud-based SaaS
solutions will drive a major shift in data security architecture, forcing CISOs
to roll up their sleeves and put controls into place around this budding
"Modern Data Stack." At the end of the day, what Matt is getting at
is that CISOs will need to become the enablers - not the bottlenecks - of the
modern data stack. But in doing so, monitoring and governance within the modern
data stack must evolve to keep pace with the speed of data.
As we think about how to build solutions that
cater to this dynamic environment where access and security must be balanced,
here are two additional predictions from my colleagues in the public sector and
customer success.
Chris
Brown, CTO Public Sector, Immuta
Governments will loosen the reins to enable greater data sharing
In 2023, government agencies will transition
from a need-to-know to a need-to-share approach for data management,
implementing data sharing mandates across many programs. This will be in
response to an expanding threat landscape, with an uptick in near-peer threats
to the U.S., as well as threats against U.S. alliances and partnerships in the
Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC). In Federal Rules
of Civil Procedure (Fed Civ), homeland security threats, protection from the
next pandemic, and the need to better understand macroeconomic trends, for
example, are triggering the need for data sharing across governments and
agencies. In order to share data safely and securely, government entities will
utilize tools like data masking and redaction to enforce data policies in
real-time. At the same time, ensuring the right people have access to the data
they are allowed to access at the right time remains paramount.
Will
Rahim, Chief Customer Officer, Immuta
Product-led customer success will become the standard
In 2023 and beyond, mature customer success
organizations will continue tightening the relationship between product and
customer success (product-led customer success). Product data will drive
growth, and constant monitoring of user behaviors and usage patterns encoded in
telemetry will result in an enhanced customer experience. The use of analytics
to monitor adoption or identify hotspots will better enable collaboration with
the product team to correlate these insights. This will help mitigate some of
the misalignment and ownership gaps around data policy and access by empowering
anyone who touches the customer with the ability to make key decisions.
While the way forward appears highly complex,
it's promising to see organizations begin to evolve their mindsets around data
management. Shifting to more agile, scalable architectures will be critical as
organizations across sectors navigate how to manage larger volumes of data and
more data sharing use cases, while maintaining compliance with stringent data
protection and management requirements.
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