The Good Tech Companies - Ockam and Redpanda Team Up: Launching the World's First Zero-Trust Streaming Data Platform

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ockam-and-redpanda-team-up-launching-the-worlds-first-zero-trust-streaming-data-platform. Ockam teamed up with Redpanda to launch Redpanda Connect with Ockam: the first zero-trust streaming data platform. Check more stories related to tech-companies at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-companies. You can also check exclusive content about #tech-companies, #cybersecurity, #kafka-connect, #data-streaming-solutions, #data-security, #ockam-and-redpanda, #good-company, #data-streaming, and more. This story was written by: @ockam. Learn more about this writer by checking @ockam's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Ockam teamed up with Redpanda to launch the first zero-trust streaming data platform. Ockam's cryptographic protocols and data integrity guarantees remove the risk of MITM and supply chain attacks that could otherwise tamper with data inflight and lead to data poisoning. Mutual authentication and encrypted data protocols mean organizations can transmit highly sensitive data securely.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Akam and Redpanda team up, launching the world's first zero-trust streaming data platform, by Akam. Akam teamed up with Redpanda to launch Redpanda Connect with Akam, the first zero-trust streaming data platform. This is a natural partnership because both companies have the same ethos, to enable every developer to build distributed systems at scale with simple tools. Both companies' products are based on popular open-source projects and are built by veteran, high-performing teams. Redpanda Connect with Occam is the only enterprise-scale, zero-trust, streaming data platform that's simultaneously easy to deploy, secure by design, and highly performant. Enterprise executives tell me that their high-value streaming applications decay a

long time to build and to ship, said Matthew Gregory, Occam's CEO. Their biggest obstacle is the construction of secure streaming data connections across their siloed enterprise and between partner companies. Secure data streaming is now simple to set up, trivial to maintain, and almost impossible to mess up. We've unlocked data so application development can move fast. Enterprise Kafka product vendors defer zero-trust implementation details to their customers. It's difficult, even for sophisticated engineering organizations, to pull together a team that can choose and assemble the dozens of parts required to build a secure by design streaming data platform red panda connect with ocam empowers a single

developer to easily create end-to-end encrypted streaming pipelines that can connect 100s of applications across clouds and hybrid infrastructure it builds trust in data streams eliminates sources of risk to critical data and removes the operational complexities inherent in managing keys at scale. Redpanda provides a declarative data streaming service that enables developers and organizations to build simple, chained, and stateless processing steps forth their data pipelines. Our partnership with Redpanda brings a truly zero-trust capability to these pipelines. Occam's cryptographic protocols and data integrity guarantees remove the risk of mighty M and supply chain attacks that could otherwise tamper with data in-flight and led to data poisoning, highlighted a sown of the OWASP top 10 risks

for companies that leverage AI and large language model, LLM, systems. The mutual authentication and encrypted data protocols that Ockham AUSIMIN organizations can transmit highly sensitive data with cryptographic guarantees so only the intended recipients will be able to decrypt and process it. This will unlock new high-value applications that businesses may have been unwilling to explore due to privacy and governance risk or complexity. We help the world's largest companies build and scale streaming applications, said Alex Gallego, Redpanda's CEO. Redpanda Connect with Occam was conceived to empower our customers to build streaming data applications with ease. Redpanda Connect comes with over 200 pre-built integrations that will quickly connect to and unlock your data silos. Occam provides the mutual authentication

and end-to-end encryption that Zero Trust streaming data applications require. Together with Occam, we've abstracted away all of the complex pieces that cause engineering teams to stumble. Confluence, 2023 data streaming report. Moving up the maturity curve, recently surveyed 2,250 IT and engineering leaders from organizations that use streaming data. 74% cited that their streaming data applications are blocked because of fragmented projects, incoordinated teams, and constrained engineering budgets. 32% claim that they successfully reduced security risks after implementing data streaming services across their applications. However, 94% have high security expectations for these same applications.

Backslash dot. These are alarming numbers. Despite the obvious benefits that a real-time streaming data architecture provides, companies struggle to ship data pipelines to their applications. Often, they're blocked for several quarters. Once they get to production, they realize that their data doesn't have the security guarantees that they need or expect from their streaming data infrastructure. Redpanda Connect with Occam aims to move these numbers to 0% and 100%, respectively.

Let's go, connect, secure, and stream, all in one simple platform. Connect with Redpanda Connect, formerly known as Benthos. Redpanda Connect empowers engineers to build connectors and integrations to over 200 applications, including SQL, Mongo, Snowflake, Cassandra, Redis, Splunk, AWS Lambda, Azure Cosmos DB, and GCP Cloud Storage. RedPanda Connect can process streaming data with transforms, mapping, filtering, hydration, and enrichment capabilities. Secure with Occam Zero Trust in your data streaming infrastructure allows you to have absolute trust in your data and applications. Occam adds the guarantees of

data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity, so you can enforce data governance and privacy policies at scale. Each producer creates its own unique cryptographically provable identity and encryption keys. The producers use their keys to establish trusted secure channels through RedPanda Cloud and to the consumers across the streaming platform. All the data that moves through your streaming data platform is encrypted in motion, even when it's passing through a broker. Keys, enrollments, and credentials are safely created, stored, rotated, and revoked auto-magically so there's almost nothing to manage. Occam makes it simple to build trust across your entire data layer,

in a way that's almost impossible to mess up. Stream with REDPANDA Cloud RedPanda Cloud is a complete streaming data platform delivered as a fully managed service with automated upgrades and patching, data and partition balancing, and 24x7 support. It continuously monitors and maintains your clusters along with the underlying infrastructure to meet strict performance, availability, reliability, and security requirements. Give it a try! http-T-T-P-S colon slash slash W-W-W. Occam. I-O. Blog.

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