The wrong people have access to your data lake

Data lake access control is supposed to be precise. You define who can read, write, or delete. You set rules based on roles, projects, or datasets. You expect these rules to hold under pressure. But in practice, permissions get misconfigured. Policies drift. Identity integration lags behind reality. The result: serious risk, wasted time, and compliance failures you won’t catch until it is too late.

The core pain point in data lake access control is fragmentation. User identities live in multiple systems. Permissions are spread across storage layers, query engines, and downstream tools. Each layer has its own model. Each change requires duplicate updates. This complexity creates openings for over-permissioned accounts and forgotten exceptions.

Another pain point: you can’t see effective permissions in one place. You might know what your IAM policy says, but not what your data lake engine actually allows at runtime. That visibility gap forces engineers to guess. Guessing in access control is dangerous.

Performance and scalability add to the problem. Many data lakes use policy engines that slow queries or break under large permission sets. This can push teams to relax controls just to keep workflows running. That tradeoff erodes security and trust.

Solving these pain points demands unified, dynamic access control. One source of truth for identities. One policy language across all layers. Real-time evaluation. Instant visibility into effective permissions. And automation to remove stale rights before they become threats.

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