Case Study: Large Consumer Technology Company reduces breach risk and uncovers hidden PII with Protecto

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Large Consumer Technology Company, a Silicon Valley consumer technology company with over 100M users, needed to understand the breach risks hidden in its cloud data lake. Its analytics team assumed there were only a few tables, but the company needed a faster way to audit huge volumes of data, identify personal information, and verify access controls across millions of user data streams.

Protecto provided a turnkey solution with pre-built integration to the customer’s cloud data source, using AI/ML to scan TBs of data in just a few hours. Protecto discovered 5,700 tables instead of the expected 20, identified personal data in 2,800 tables, found that 92% of data was stale, and helped remove inactive users and delete unused data, reducing attack surface and saving $500K per year.