Elevating Data Governance: Securiti AI and Databricks Unity Catalog

Enterprises know that data governance is the key to the safe use of data for analytics and AI.  Enhanced data governance with Securiti and Databricks empowers enterprises to confidently navigate complex data landscapes, ensuring their Databricks data assets and entire data estate across hybrid, multi-cloud and on-prem resources are well-governed, secure, and primed for driving business value. Forward-thinking organizations implementing Securiti AI and Databricks together will realize these benefits.

The Securiti AI and Databricks Unity Catalog integration elevates and automates data governance. It provides enterprises with a holistic view of their data landscape, enabling granular access controls and real-time policy enforcement. This partnership empowers organizations to confidently leverage their data for analytics and AI while ensuring compliance and security across their entire data estate." - Raja Parmul, Product Lead Unity Catalog

Contextual Intelligence for Informed Governance

By enriching Databricks Unity Catalog with Securiti's contextual data intelligence, the partnership provides data stewards and governance teams with a 360-degree view of their data landscape. Securiti’s DataAI Command Graph™ and AI Intelligence™  modules enrich the Unity Catalog, enabling more informed decision-making, policy creation, risk assessment, and governance strategy formulation. Use cases include:

Unstructured Data Intelligence and Management

Contextual insights for unstructured data from all key perspectives is a baseline need for full data utilization and safe use of AI. Securiti's Unstructured Data Intelligence capability significantly enhances the Unity Catalog by handling the complexities of unstructured data. The partnership addresses the critical gap in traditional data catalogs, which often focus primarily on structured data. By incorporating unstructured data intelligence, organizations can now have a holistic view of their entire data landscape within Unity Catalog, improving compliance, reducing risks, and unlocking the full potential of their data for innovation and strategic advantage.

Holistic Data Governance Framework

Securiti's DataAI Command Graph™ integrated with Unity Catalog, creates a holistic governance framework. Securiti's DataAI Command Graph™ serves as the single source of truth and captures metadata and relationships across data systems, AI models, entitlements, policies, and regulations. This unified approach ensures that governance policies are not just documented, but actively enforced across the entire data lifecycle within the Databricks environment and across the entire data estate. It bridges the gap between policy creation and implementation, a common pitfall in many governance initiatives.

How it Works

Enhanced Data Discovery and Classification

Effective governance starts with knowing your data. Securiti's Data Discovery and Classification augments Unity Catalog's capabilities. It uses machine learning and out-of-the-box classifiers to find sensitive data in both structured and unstructured systems. The platform's NLP techniques and exact data matching improve classification accuracy, providing a robust foundation for governance policies in Databricks environments. This expansion allows for more nuanced and accurate classification of sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources, forming the foundation for robust governance policies and effective search patterns.

Granular Access Controls

Perhaps the most transformative aspect of this partnership is the ability to set sophisticated access policies in Securiti and have them seamlessly enforced in Unity Catalog. Securiti's Data Access Intelligence and Access Controls module enables sophisticated policy setting. These policies are then automatically enforced in Unity Catalog for Databricks. The system maps relationships between users, roles, and permissions, allowing organizations to implement least privilege access effectively within Databricks. This granular control down to the element level allows organizations to implement the principle of least privilege effectively, ensuring that data access is aligned with business needs and compliance requirements.

Real-time Policy Enforcement

Gone are the days of retrospective governance checks. The integration enables real-time enforcement of data policies at the point of access. The Policy Framework in Securiti enables real-time enforcement of data policies at the point of access within the Unity Catalog. This is achieved through centralized policy management that can be applied across various data systems, including Databricks, ensuring proactive governance. This proactive approach not only enhances security but also ensures that governance is an integral part of data utilization rather than an afterthought.

Cross-Border Data Intelligence

Securiti's Cross-Border Data Intelligence provides crucial insights for global data governance to Databricks users. Security’s DataAI Command Graph™ identifies data of residents stored in locations that might violate internal policies or global cross-border laws. The system uses a rich library of global regulations on data sovereignty, automatically applying these rules to data in the Unity Catalog. This integration allows organizations using Databricks to easily visualize and manage cross-border data issues, ensuring compliance with complex international data regulations.