Privacera Documentation Changelog

Running log of updates to documentation for Privacera Platform and PrivaceraCloud.

2022-05-03

PrivaceraCloud

• Preview of PrivaceraCloud Governed Data Sharing project leader role, newly supported applications, Discovery scans, and other features. Note: Login required.
• List of supported, certified encryption schemes. All others not listed are deprecated.
• Snowflake PolicySync configuration prerequisites.
• Single Sign-On to bypass PrivaceraCloud login screen.
• Enabling Discovery for Microsoft SQL Server.
• Enabling Discovery for Redshift.
• Spark properties for configuring Databricks Spark Fine-Grained Access Control Plugin [FGAC] and Databricks Spark Object-level Access Control Plugin [OLAC].
• Propagate Discovery Tags to Apache Ranger.
• Reminder how to enable Privacera Discovery for:
  • Cassandra.
  • Databricks SQL PolicySync.
  • Microsoft SQL Server.
  • MySQL.
  • Oracle.
  • Presto.
  • Redshift.
  • S3.
  • Snowflake.
  • Trino.

2022-04-29

Privacera Platform

• Updated list of supported Databricks versions.

2022-04-11

PrivaceraCloud

• Preview: Privacera Encryption UDFs for Trino.

2022-03-31

Privacera Platform

• Order of precedence in PolicySync filter by group and filter by role.
• PolicySync for Google BigQuery with service privacera_bigquery.
• Preview of encryption UDFs for Trino.
• List of supported, certified encryption schemes. All others not listed are deprecated.
• Removal of all reference to deprecated Privacera Manager installation UI.
• Permission denied error in Privacera Manager Docker installation.
• Improvements to upgrade Privacera Manager page.
• New property DATABRICKS_SERVICE_NAME_PREFIX for configuring service name for Databricks Spark Plugin.
• Updates to all PolicySync custom properties.
• Snowflake PolicySync configuration prerequisites.

• Configuration updated with all default properties for the following:

  • Databricks SQL.
  • Google BigQuery.
  • Microsoft SQL Server.
  • PostgreSQL.
  • PowerBI.
  • Redshift.
  • Snowflake.

• TagSync using Apache Ranger.

• Discovery property DISCOVERY_SCAN_PARQUET_ORC_STREAM_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT.
• How to resolve problem of non-Portal users being able to access restricted resources.
• Google BigQuery prerequisites
• Configure log size and retention for RocksDB key-value pairs used by PolicySync.

2022-03-08

PrivaceraCloud

• Preview of PrivaceraCloud Governed Data Sharing data steward. Note: Login required.

• Preview of File Explorer for Azure on PrivaceraCloud

• Significant reorganization of the PrivaceraCloud User Guide for ease of use and readability. All available applications, such as Databricks, S3, or Microsoft SQL, are now detailed both for the setup wizard at first login by the account administrator and as a separate topic for each application in Settings > Applications.

• Scan random sample of datasource.
• Support for Starburst Enterprise for PrivaceraCloud.
• Enable SSO, Disable PrivaceraCloud Username and Password.
• Databricks Encryption UDF optional presentation scheme.
• Example data transform with encryption presentation scheme.
• New UI location to Enable Privacera Encryption.

2022-01-24

Security-related Documentation Updates

• Privacera Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) Program
• Shared Security Model

Privacera Platform

• Complete overhaul of Privacera Manager Installation Guide:
  • Conceptual overviews
  • Planning options and decision points
  • Discrete installation steps for AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Significant enhancement to Privacera Encryption Guide:
  • Conceptual overviews
  • Annotated architectural and process graphics
  • Elaboration on encryption key hierarchy
  • Generalized approaches to programming
  • Example data transform with encryption presentation scheme
• Starburst Enterprise for Privacera Platform
• JDBC connection for Trino/Starburst
• Considerations of the SAN field in SSL certificates
• Property DISCOVERY_HBASE_WAIT_BETWEEN_RETRY_MS

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Last update: May 3, 2022