Sensitive Data in the Cloud Data Platform

Knowing what is there, deciding who should reach it, catching the access that should not have happened, and acting on it — without data leaving your platform.

The gap this closes

Cloud data platforms have good access controls. What they do not have is an answer to the question an auditor, a regulator or an incident actually asks: was this use appropriate? Three things make that hard to answer in a large estate.

• Entitlements describe possibility, not behaviour. An access review proves an identity could reach a table. It says nothing about whether the reads that followed made sense — particularly where a shared service account, a BI tool or an agent sits between the person and the data.
• Classification decays the moment it finishes. Pipelines land new columns weekly. A quarterly scan describes an estate that no longer exists, and the labels the platform enforces on are only as current as the last pass.
• Grants outlive the reason they were issued. A broad grant is still the fastest way to unblock a team on a Friday, and almost nothing in the platform notices when the data underneath that grant changes.

In one sentence

Theom runs inside your data platform, keeps classification current as the data changes, reconciles it against who can actually reach it, watches what those identities do, and then either enforces through the platform’s own controls or alerts on what it sees — your choice, and the same deployment either way.

What you receive

• A sensitive-data inventory by object, schema and owner, refreshed on your schedule rather than at audit time.
• Tags written into your platform’s catalog, so classification is usable by the controls and tools you already run.
• Findings against named objects — over-broad grants, dormant privileges, ownership gaps, classification and policy mismatches — ranked, with owners attached.
• Alerts with context, delivered into your SIEM and ticketing systems, describing what was read, by which identity, under which grant, and why it stood out.
• Reporting for audit and regulatory questions, drawn from the same continuous record.
• Enforcement, when you want it — the platform’s own row, column and masking controls, driven by tags Theom keeps current.