According to a new press release, “Alation Inc., the leader in enterprise data catalogs, today announced a partnership with BigID, the leading modern data intelligence platform for privacy, protection and perspective, to enable enterprises to consistently protect sensitive data and personal information, and ensure compliance with emerging data privacy regulations including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The partnership delivers a unified interface integrated with a unified data inventory and personal information mapping to govern data usage at the point of consumption. Now, organizations can automate and scale how they find data and understand whose data it is. Data stewards can manage data insights based on both business and legal knowledge and apply policies to better adhere to data privacy regulations, mitigating the financial and reputational risk of breaches.”

The release goes on, “Enterprises lack a comprehensive understanding on what data is covered by privacy mandates and where data elements are located. The partnership delivers a consolidated solution that enables CDOs, data stewards, and analytics teams to understand which policies apply to which data sets based on privacy regulations, internal policies, and the relationship of the data to the data subject or consumer. The integration of Alation and BigID guides self-service analytics users through privacy-aware data consumption by mapping business glossary terms to data elements across enterprise infrastructure. Users now gain visibility into which policies apply to specific data sets across a complex data ecosystem.”

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