Bart Vandekerckhove

Today, most business operations live in the cloud. But traditional methods of granting fine-grained access — one role, one ticket, one table at a time — breaks down at cloud scale. Permissions pile up faster than anyone can audit them, and every forgotten grant widens the damage a future breach can do. This becomes particularly problematic with Agentic Access where excessive access rights create significant data security risks. Attribute-based access control flips this model.

The grace period for the NIS2 Directive has long passed. The estimated 160,000 European companies originally impacted are no longer "preparing"—they should be now operating under a regime of active supervision and enforcement. In this article, we provide an updated, in-depth analysis of the NIS2 Directive, its realized impact on data security and how data teams are leveraging Collibrato maintain continuous compliance.

Data is only valuable if the right people can actually use it, yet access bottlenecks often slow analytics, AI initiatives and critical business decisions. Even organizations with advanced AI maturity still struggle with data availability. In fact, Gartner reports that nearly half face this challenge.