Collibra acquires Raito to enhance its data security capabilities

Data management provider Collibra Inc. has acquired Raito BV, a startup that helps enterprises manage employee access to their business information.

The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. Raito, which was founded four years ago by former Collibra employees, has raised €4 million in funding. Collibra is backed by about $595 million from Index Ventures and other investors.

The typical enterprise’s data is scattered across a large number of systems. Collibra sells a cloud platform that can make records from different systems available through a centralized data catalog, which simplifies access. It also provides tools for other tasks. Collibra tracks how records change over time, identifies data quality issues and spots duplicate items.

Another set of features in the company’s platform helps enterprises manage employee access to their files. Using Collibra, an organization can implement policies that limit who can access what record and how. The acquisition of Raito will enhance this subset of the platform’s feature set.

Raito offers a data access management platform of the same name. It allows administrators to configure policies that regulate how workers interact with business data. Such policies can, for example, specify that users may access transaction logs in a financial database but not edit them or add new ones.

For particularly sensitive systems, Raito can grant temporary access permissions. If a worker wishes to remove an erroneous record from an artificial intelligence training dataset, Raito could make the dataset editable for only a few minutes. The software can also prevent AI models from including sensitive information in prompt responses.

Raito doubles as an observability tool. According to the company, its platform monitors how workers access business data and identifies access permissions that aren’t actively used. Administrators can remove those permissions to reduce the risk of breaches. The fewer access permissions are assigned to an employee account, the less data is compromised in the event that the account is hacked.

Collibra plans to integrate Raito’s technology into its data management platform. 

“Organizations will be able to define access once — on the semantic graph — and have it enforced dynamically across platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Google, AWS, Azure and more,” Collibra co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Felix Van de Maele wrote in a blog post. “This eliminates duplication, inconsistencies and inefficiencies across the data landscape.”

Collibra disclosed the acquisition in conjunction with a product update. The company is extending its platform with features that make easier to track how datasets change over time in AWS Glue and Apache AirFlow deployments. Additionally, there are new capabilities for managing AI models.

Photo: Index Ventures