Mon Sep 16 15:53:33 UTC 2024: ## Latacora Leverages Datomic for Unified Security Data Analysis

**Latacora, a company specializing in security tooling, has announced a significant shift in their data analysis approach, leveraging the power of Datomic to create a unified and queryable data graph of their clients’ infrastructure.**

Previously, Latacora collected snapshots of client environments by making requests to various APIs and storing them in S3. While effective, this method required complex text searches and limited the ability to analyze relationships between different resources.

**Datomic, a database with immutable atomic facts and Datalog query capabilities, offers a more efficient and powerful solution.** By storing data as facts and utilizing Datalog’s logic programming features, Latacora can now perform complex queries across the entire data graph, uncovering connections and insights previously inaccessible.

**To address the challenges of storing and unifying large datasets, Latacora developed a custom snapshot format and data processing pipeline.** This pipeline leverages content addressable storage techniques to deduplicate data, ensuring only unique information is stored.

**The unified data graph allows Latacora to perform advanced security analysis, including:**

* **Identifying vulnerabilities:** Identifying instances where Multi-Factor Authentication is disabled in Okta while users possess AdministratorAccess in AWS, or detecting the presence of compromised code in production environments.
* **Analyzing changes over time:** Generating networking diagram diffs and heatmaps illustrating the evolution of client environments.

**This new approach offers several advantages:**

* **Improved efficiency and accuracy:** Complex queries can be performed across the entire data graph, uncovering vulnerabilities and insights previously missed.
* **Reduced storage costs:** Data deduplication and efficient storage methods significantly reduce costs.
* **Enhanced automation:** Automated ingestion and querying simplifies data analysis processes.

**The use of Datomic empowers Latacora to streamline their security analysis and deliver more actionable insights to their clients.**

**Latacora invites interested individuals and organizations to connect with them at hello@latacora.com to explore the potential of their innovative data analysis platform.**

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