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Open Raven at 4: Expanded Coverage, New Automations, and Data Detection & Response

As we continue to shape the cloud data security category, we commemorate our fourth anniversary by expanding our platform and our Board of Directors, and sharing some reflections on what we’ve figured out while trailblazing modern data security.

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Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Data Detection and Response, Expanded Coverage, Real-time Scanning, New Data Classes, and UI Enhancements

September 1, 2023

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Data Classification

Operationalizing Data Security in the Cloud at Scale - Data Classification Explained Part 2

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Introduction to Stale Data

Use Cases

How Open Raven Complements CSPMs - Real World Examples

Open Source

Transforming Data Classification Testing with Generative AI

Product

Operationalizing Data Security in the Cloud at Scale - Data Classification Explained Part 1

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Open Raven Platform Release: New Multi-Cloud Capabilities, Classifying Biometric Data

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Structured Cloud Data Discovery & Classification: What You Should Know About Snapshot Scanning

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Composite Data Classes - A Significant Leap Forward in Data Classification

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Enterprises Prioritize Data Classification in 2023

Company News

DSPM depth or breadth? Why not both?

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Expanding Unstructured Data Classification With Metadata Scanning

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: New Asset Details Views, New Access and Permissions Details, Snapshot Scanning, and Integration with Snowflake

February 16, 2023

Product

Speeding Investigations and Uncovering Risky Misconfigurations Using Maps

February 13, 2023

Company News

$10,000 Tylenol: Fixing Cloud Data Security Costs

January 25, 2023

HITRUST

HITRUST & Data Security - Part 3 of 3

January 25, 2023

Open Source

Why Customization is Critical for Previewing Sensitive Data Findings

December 20, 2022

Product

Platform Enhancements for Structured Data Scanning

December 20, 2022

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Major Leap Forward in Structured Data Classification, Maps Design and Performance Enhancements, and New Data Classes

December 7, 2022

HITRUST

HITRUST & Data Security - Part 2 of 3

December 6, 2022

HITRUST

HITRUST & Data Security - A Three Part Series

November 8, 2022

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Customizable Data Previews, New API Key Management UI, and New Rules for Matching Personal Data to the Correct Region

November 3, 2022

Open Source

Sampling Unstructured Data Brings Risk of Silent Failure

October 19, 2022

Open Source

Safe and Private Cloud Data Classification Without Backhauling

October 19, 2022

Open Source

Achieving Complete and Accurate Data Scans Using Validator Functions

September 9, 2022

Company News

Open Raven at 3: New Customers, Fresh Funding, and an Expanded Platform

September 8, 2022

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Driving Downstream Actions Through Tagging, APIs, Integrations, And Dynamic Asset Group Scanning

September 2, 2022

Developer Secrets

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Developer Secrets

Engineering Effective Data Security Alerts - Data Security Rules Explained Part 4

August 19, 2022

Developer Secrets

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Developer Secrets

How to Use Data Context to Ensure Compliance - Data Security Rules Explained Part 3

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Improved Large File Scanning Control and Speed, Enhanced Maps, New Scan Metrics and Policies

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Data Catalog V2, Faster Data Scanning, Data Class Enhancements, And More Rules

Developer Secrets

Developer Secrets

Analyzing the Travis CI Attack and Exposure of Developer Secrets

Developer Secrets

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Developer Secrets

Types of Data Security Risks - Data Security Rules Explained Part 2

Developer Secrets

Developer Secrets

Scanning for Developer Secrets in Git Repositories using Open Raven

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: Granular Scan Control, Improved (and Expanded) Data Classes, Alongside a Ton of New Rules

Developer Secrets

Developer Secrets

How Threat Actors Steal Developer Secrets

Developer Secrets

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Use Cases

Developer Secrets

Operationalizing Data Security in the Cloud at Scale - Data Security Rules Explained Part 1

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: It’s all about scaling — core scanning engine, map, data catalog, across the UI, discovery, policies, and rules

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Redesigned Asset List & Data Scanning Performance Boost

Open Source

The Dangers of Exposed Elasticsearch Instances

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Improved Scanning, Maps, and a Sneak Peek at JIRA Integration

December 20, 2021

Engineering

Using Lambda in AWS? There’s Something You Should Know About VPC NAT Timeouts

December 19, 2021

Use Cases

3 Critical Controls for Protecting Data from Ransomware Attacks in AWS

November 15, 2021

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Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Auto-Scan, Speed & Scale

November 3, 2021

Use Cases

4 Steps to Secure Your Data with AWS Backup and Open Raven

October 28, 2021

Use Cases

Finding Sensitive Data in Cold AWS S3 Buckets

October 13, 2021

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Company News

Open Raven Summer 2021 Product Launch: Master Ransomware Resilience

September 2, 2021

Use Cases

Audit and Report on Data Privacy

August 26, 2021

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Dashboards and Search with Integrated Splunk

August 26, 2021

Company News

The Case for Ransomware Resilience

August 24, 2021

Use Cases

Blue Team Diaries: Becoming Data Smart

August 11, 2021

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: A Data-Smart Map of Your Cloud

August 10, 2021

Use Cases

Automate Cloud Data and Asset Inventory

Use Cases

Developer Secrets

Automate Data Classification to Combat Secret Sprawl

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: One-Click Preview of Data Findings

Use Cases

Find and Act on Exposed Data

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: A New Data Catalog

Product

Company News

Open Raven Spring 2021 Product Launch

Engineering

Product

Open Raven vs Macie: Healthcare Data Results - Part 5

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Policy Violations When Data Is the Endpoint

Engineering

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Data Classification Techniques

Engineering

Product

Open Raven vs Macie: Financial Data Results - Part 4

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Navigate Leaky S3 Buckets with Maps

Open Source

Magpie

Magpie RFC: Security Rules and Policies

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Classification and Account Management

Engineering

Product

Open Raven vs Macie: Performing the Benchmarking - Part 3

Open Source

Magpie

Magpie Cookbook #3: AWS Asset Reports Made Easy

Engineering

Product

Searching for and Opening Files in AWS S3 Buckets - Part 5 of 5

Company News

Open Raven Named a Finalist for the RSA Conference 2021 Innovation Sandbox

Open Source

Engineering

Magpie

Magpie Cookbook #2: Discover and Portscan Your Public EC2 Instances

Engineering

Product

Signal vs Noise - The Cycle of Innovation in Data Classification - Part 4 of 5

Open Source

Engineering

Magpie

Magpie Cookbook #1: Discover Your Public S3 buckets

Product

Engineering

Using Terraform to Setup Open Raven and AWS Discovery

Engineering

Product

Open Raven vs Macie: Getting the Data for Benchmarking - Part 2

Engineering

Product

Open Raven vs Macie: Data Classification Benchmarking - Part 1

Engineering

Product

Finding and Determining What Data To Classify - Part 3 of 5

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform Release: Streamlined AWS S3 Data Classification

Ideas

Product

Toxic (Log) Containment

Engineering

Product

Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Data Lakehouses and the Data Engineering Landscape - Part 2 of 5

February 23, 2021

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Engineering

Designing and Building Data Classification Systems for Security and Privacy - Part 1 of 5

February 16, 2021

Open Source

Open Sourcing Mockingbird

January 25, 2021

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform Release: New Integrations, Parquet & Avro Support, and More

January 14, 2021

Release Notes

Open Raven Platform 1.06

December 21, 2020

Release Notes

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GA Release of the Open Raven Cloud-Native Data Protection Platform 1.0

November 18, 2020

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Use Cases

To Stop Cloud Data Breaches, Find and Fix Cloud Data Misconfigurations

October 28, 2020

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform 0.9 and a Few Release Updates

October 27, 2020

Release Notes

Product

Open Raven Platform 0.8 and a Few Related Updates

October 20, 2020

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Open Raven Extends Cloud Data Discovery to 80+ Different Asset Types

September 29, 2020

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Use Cases

Cloud Data Stores and Compliance: What’s to Know

August 11, 2020

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Use Cases

How to Accelerate Data Migration to Cloud Native Stores

Culture

Ideas

Working From Home: Structuring Your Day - Part 3 of 3

Culture

Ideas

Working From Home: Neutralizing Negativity Bias - Part 2 of 3

Culture

Ideas

Working From Home: The Big 3 - Part 1 of 3

Company News

Engineering

Culture

Open Raven + Security Voices

February 11, 2020

Engineering

Data Store Fingerprinting with DMAP

February 9, 2020

Company News

Engineering

Why We Chose Open Source

February 9, 2020

Company News

February 7, 2020