Tech companies building cloud-native applications face a set of unique and rising data protection challenges. At Bearer, we had the chance to speak with 100+ data security and privacy professionals including Chief Information Security Officers, Directors of Security Engineering, Application Security Engineers, Data Protection Officers, Privacy Engineers, and many more. Here are the top concerns that keep them up at night.
Start-ups committed to becoming something special begin building their new business as they mean to go on, particularly in the potentially business velocity-killing areas of security and compliance. For start-ups in highly regulated industries like healthcare and finance, the requirement to have the right technical and organizational controls in place is nothing less than existential.
End of summer 2020: Bearer takes the decision to pivot. We have been building an API monitoring & debugging solution for engineering and DevOps teams. We have a stable product and dozens of users onboard. Even so, after months of iterations product adoption is still low and our positioning with all-in-one monitoring solutions is disadvantageous. Product-Market-Fit (PMF) is definitely not in the line of sight.
Bearer has partnered with Trace to help companies leverage the best of services and software and build a connected compliance program. Bearer is innovating data risk assessments to build intelligence and stack visibility at scale, while the Trace team brings decades of client-led professional services experience in privacy and data security. Together, the two companies bring the best blend of human and tech capabilities to shape the future of compliance.
Our product has been through many changes over the years. Both from a market standpoint, but also technically. Over the last year we’ve simplified our architecture and moved away from a traditional Javascript single page application (SPA) and gone back to our Rails roots. Here’s the story of why we chose Hotwire, what it’s allowed us to do, and where we hope to see it in the future.
The engineering organization of companies building modern cloud applications can get incredibly complex. Security teams are caught between the explosive growth of engineering teams and the fragmentation of software architecture. As a result, it can be a challenge to get a clear, complete and up-to-date view of engineering components. Bringing clarity about the software architecture is the first step to enable you to assess and remediate data security risks properly.
