Open Raven

Open Raven is a data security platform designed to automate data discovery, classification, posture management, and detection and response. According to the vendor, it offers comprehensive visibility into data stores, helping organizations prevent security incidents, streamline compliance efforts, and reduce costs and risks. Open Raven is suitable for companies of all sizes. It is utilized by professionals such as Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Security Analysts, Data Privacy Officers, Compliance Officers, and Cloud Security Professionals across various industries including Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Retail, and Government.

Key Features

Automate data security: According to the vendor, Open Raven automates data security processes, including data discovery, classification, posture management, and detection and response. It provides customizable solutions with integrations and APIs to fit existing workflows.

Comprehensive visibility: Open Raven offers comprehensive visibility into data stores, allowing security teams to inventory data, classify data at scale, pinpoint sensitive data, and identify potential risks. It helps spot shadow data, left-behind services, 3rd party network connections, and other risk factors.

Prevent costly security incidents: The vendor claims that Open Raven proactively identifies conditions that can lead to data leaks and breaches, allowing organizations to secure or remove data to avoid security incidents. It helps detect and fix human errors that account for the majority of breaches.

Streamline compliance: Open Raven helps global companies comply with regulations such as GDPR and Schrems II by automating the location and control of customer data. The vendor states that it creates guardrails that streamline responses to compliance efforts such as SOC2 and HITRUST.

Eliminate unnecessary costs and risk: According to the vendor, Open Raven helps reduce costs and risks by pinpointing all data locations and highlighting sensitive data. It identifies and eliminates unnecessary data and services, addressing the issue of "dark" data that is never touched or used.

Automate attack detection and response: Open Raven's Data Detection and Response feature enables hands-free monitoring of critical data. It combines real-time events and machine learning algorithms to monitor data events, detect abnormal behavior, and quickly respond to potential attacks.

Efficient serverless analysis: Open Raven uses a unique serverless architecture for data location, inventory, and classification without requiring high-risk configuration changes or data movement. The vendor claims that it conducts analysis using serverless functions with read-only permissions, ensuring data stays within the organization's environment.

Open architecture: Open Raven is built on an open-source architecture, with projects like Magpie and Mockingbird central to its platform. Magpie powers Open Raven's discovery and security rules engine, while Mockingbird is a synthetic data generator for testing and benchmarking.

Integrate data context: Open Raven integrates with common workflow tools such as Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, email, and Snowflake. According to the vendor, it provides automated alerts with data context, enriching security datalakes by streaming data from Open Raven into Snowflake.

Operationalize data security: Open Raven helps organizations automate data security by establishing guardrails for data. Users can create custom rules and policies in SQL or Python to monitor and enforce data security. It provides data previews with redaction to ensure privacy while allowing users to validate findings and customize data preview generation methods.