360Quadrants, the world’s only comparison platform that combines expert analysis with crowdsourced reviews, has released a quadrant on Big Data Security solutions to help businesses make quicker and more informed decisions.
Big Data refers to a large set of complex and unstructured digital data which could include confidential information used by organizations to gain insights. Hence, the security of this data becomes important for every organization. Big data security can be termed as the proactive and protective approach for management of digital privacy. Big data security solutions are used to prevent unauthorized access and effectively protect organizational data.

The global big data security market has been segmented into component, technology, type of data, deployment mode, organization size, vertical, and region.

Amazon has been identified as a visionary leader in the big data security space given its extensive product features, high product quality, reliability, suitable channel strategy, and wide geographical footprint. 360Quadrants also lists competitors of Amazon in the Big Data Security space.

Big data security offerings from Amazon aim to deliver valuable insights and intelligence from data. The company has an established product portfolio with a robust market presence and business strategy. Some of the major developments of the company in the big data security space include:

Amazon introduces automatic data backups with its Web Services

AWS, the cloud platform of Amazon Web Services has introduced a new feature that helps companies back up data more easily. AWS Backup allows customers to manage all their stored data effectively through one service. It is compatible with the following.

• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
• AWS Storage Gateway

It will extend support to other services, as per a statement released by the company.

Italy to benefit from data centers in Italy

AWS plans to set up data centers in Italy by 2020 to help organizations provide lower latency to users. It will enable customers to store data within the country; customers with apps that are in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be provided access to AWS infrastructure region in the EU. Domestic organizations will benefit in terms of advanced tech for AI, IoT, mobile services, ML, and others.

AWS collaborated with Salesforce to enhance the digital transformation of enterprises

AWS and Salesforce have extended their global partnership to simplify the process of securing data to be shared and syncing data of customers across the services of both companies. A secure framework enabling the connecting of AWS PrivateLink and Amazon Connect with Salesforce will also be available.

Amazon GuardDuty launched to protect AWS accounts of customers

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that is intelligent and fully managed to help protect customer accounts and workloads. It does this by way of constant monitoring of the accounts for malicious or unauthorized activity. Customers can set default ‘normal’ activities on the AWS Management Console. Behavior and activity that might fall outside their purview will be identified, and the account holder will be notified for further action.

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