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We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorized at the High Impact level, enabling new data and AI use cases across public sector on the dedicated Microsoft Azure Government (MAG) cloud. Azure Databricks is trusted by federal, state and local government agencies, such as the...

This is a guest post by Keyuri Shah, lead software engineer, and Fred Kimball, software engineer, Northwestern Mutual.   Protecting PII (personally identifiable information) is very important as the number of data breaches and records with sensitive information exposed every day are trending upwards. To avoid becoming the next victim and protect users from identity...

You are a security practitioner, a data scientist or a security data engineer; you’ve seen the Large Scale Threat Detection and Response talk with Databricks . But you're wondering, “how can I try Databricks in my own security operations?” In this blog post, you will learn how to detect a remote access trojan using passive...

Are your Amazon S3 buckets secure? Do you know which ones are public or private? Do you even know which ones are supposed to be? Data breaches are expensive. Facebook notoriously exposed 540 million records of its users recently, which was a contributing factor of the $5 billion fine they were issued by the FTC....

We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen federal agencies are building...

Join our webinar Real-time Threat Detection, Analytics and AI in the Public Sector to learn more and see a live demo. In 2019, there were 7,098 data breaches exposing over 15.1 billion records. That equates to a cyber incident  every hour and fifteen minutes. The Public Sector is a prime target with cyber criminals and...

Azure Databricks is a Unified Data Analytics Platform that is a part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Built upon the foundations of Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas and Apache SparkTM, Azure Databricks is a first party PaaS on Microsoft Azure cloud that provides one-click setup, native integrations with other Azure cloud services, interactive workspace, and enterprise-grade...

Over the last few years, Databricks has gained a lot of experience deploying data analytics at scale in the enterprise. In many cases, our customers have thousands of people using our product across different business units for a variety of different use cases —all of which involve accessing various data classifications from private and sensitive...

Azure Databricks is a Unified Data Analytics Platform that is a part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Built upon the foundations of Delta Lake, MLFlow , Koalas and Apache Spark, Azure Databricks is a first party service on Microsoft Azure cloud that provides one-click setup, native integrations with other Azure services, interactive workspace, and enterprise-grade...

With more digital data being captured every day, there has been a rise of various regulatory standards such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and recently the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These privacy laws and standards are aimed at protecting consumers from businesses that improperly collect, use, or share their personal information, and...