Privacy by Architecture with Skyflow’s Anshu Sharma

Both compliance regulations and consumer needs are creating increasing pressure on companies to do a better job of securing and managing their sensitive customer data. Yet, companies continue to struggle to comply with regulations, meet consumer privacy demands, and prevent data breaches.

Anshu Sharma, CEO and founder of Skyflow, joins the show to discuss a radically different approach to privacy, the data privacy vault. With a data privacy vault, a company is making the architectural decision to move their sensitive customer data out of their existing infrastructure and into a vault. The vault is isolated and protected, becoming the single source of truth for all sensitive customer PII, effectively de-scoping existing systems from the responsibilities of compliance, data security, and data privacy.

The data privacy vault makes the principles of privacy by design actionable, creating a system for engineers to implement the principles in the form of privacy by architecture.

Topics covered:

• How did you end up with an interest in working in the data privacy space
• Why should companies care about privacy?
• Why is privacy hard for companies?
• What is a data privacy vault?
• Where did this technology come from?
• How does the data privacy vault help with things like data security and compliance?
• How is this different from just a dedicated encrypted database for PII?
• Why haven't more companies built their own vaults?
• Why is an API the right way to deliver this technology?
• How does the vault facilitate data utility while still protecting the data?

Resources:

• What is a Data Privacy Vault
• What if privacy had an API?

Follow Anshu on Twitter @anshublog.