Blog
14 Jan
Providing data access at the right granularity
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, File Sh...
Providing users with access to the data they need at the right granularity is virtually impossible without automation. The best a data team can realistically hope for is to control...
07 Jan
Unified Data Access: Keeping pace with the cloud
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, Data Go...
As companies migrate their storage and collaboration to the cloud, many are realising that their processes for authorising access to data also requires transformation. This is beca...
09 Dec
Torsion enabling Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Category: Blog, Data access, Data Governance
What is privileged access management (PAM) and why is it important? Privileged Access Management (PAM) is the combination of tools and technology used to secure, control and monito...
26 Nov
Data Access for onboarding and offboarding employees
Category: Blog, Data access
For industries and organisations synonymous with a high level of staff turnover, it’s often a struggle to effectively manage the onboarding and offboarding of employees, whil...
11 Nov
How to maintain tight control over Data Access Rights
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, File Sh...
When your data is accessible by multiple employees and teams across your organisation, data access rights must be carefully controlled to keep your environment safe. Always ensure ...
05 Nov
Data Access Control for Delegated IT Governance Models
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, Data Go...
IT teams are more frequently getting caught between different approaches to data access governance, especially when working within the cloud. Two common IT strategies are a mandate...
29 Oct
Self-Service Data Access Governance
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, Data Go...
You’re probably aware of the rise of “walk out” technology that is allowing supermarket chains to get rid of tills. Tesco and Aldi are both opening stores that dispense with...
21 Oct
Why empowerment drives powerful data access governance
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access, Data Go...
Moving day-to-day data access decisions away from the IT team to data owners might seem like a big step (this is exactly what Torsion does), but the end results can be far more enc...
07 Oct
How Torsion implements ABAC data access in a cloud-based system
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access
In our last blog we looked at how current ABAC approaches are being held back when it comes to controlling access in dynamic cloud-based unstructured information systems such as MS...
30 Sep
3 reasons why it’s difficult to implement ABAC data access in a cloud-based system
Category: Advisory, Blog, Data access
As we have discussed before, Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) is an established approach for controlling access rights based on matching a combination of criteria about users ...