Data Sharing in a COVID-19 World

Accessing and exploring data sets is hard in the best of times.  Data access is a huge challenge when working within a contingency/continuity, work-from-home mode.  We need a way to distribute data to employees such that it is secure, highly compressed, and ultra-easy to access.

Exponam .BIG files are an easy to use alternative to CSV files.  .BIG files are fully encrypted, ensuring that data files are completely secure anywhere they reside, at rest, in use, and in transit.  Access is controlled via passphrase, token, or multifactor authentication.  Dynamic entitlement is available for further control of sensitive GDPR or HIPAA governed data.

.BIG files are super-efficient for transferring and querying data.  Time to migrate large data sets into/out of databases is slashed from hours to minutes.  Queries execute in a fraction of the time it takes with CSVs.  .BIG files are highly compressed, enabling fast download, distribution, and sharing – no matter how many rows of data (millions, 100s of millions of rows).

.BIG files are easily accessed via the Exponam ExplorerTM, a spreadsheet viewer for instant filtering, sorting, and finding data.  Isolated subsets are moved to Excel with a single click.  .BIG data is also accessed via JDBC with the speed of database queries.

.BIG files are completely tamper-proof and their provenance is guaranteed.  You can be confident that the publisher is genuine, the file properties are accurate, and the data is unaltered.

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How Valuable Is Your Voter Data?

You share files – voter files, donor lists, supporter data.
It’s how you win elections.

Who do you fear accessing your data?

~ Foreign Agents ~ Domestic Meddlers ~ Other Candidates ~

What happens when your files are stolen or altered?

~ Lost elections ~ Regulatory entanglement ~ Lost donor revenue ~

 

How secure is your data?  Even if you send data through an encrypted channel, once received it is vulnerable.  “Secure” zip files do not protect you.   CSVs and Excel files sitting on a laptop are not secure.  Unsecured data at rest is a huge concern.

We created .BIGTM data files to enable easy sharing and exploring of data (a few rows or hundreds of millions of rows).  But security was always our primary concern.  Our files are architected to be the most impenetrable data vehicles on the market.

Read about how .BIG files secure data.

And then download the Exponam Explorer to see how easily you can explore large sets of data.

Want to know a little secret?

Data isn’t hard. You don’t need a PhD in Data Science to understand big data. I spent years running reporting services in the finance industry.
The truth? We don’t want to give data to you.

Why?

A few reasons:

  • The tools to view, query, and sort large data sets are not made for you. They are made for programmers. If we give you a data set with 10 million records, what are you going to do with it? (Hint: It will probably mean more work for us.)
  • We don’t trust you to draw the correct conclusions from the data. This may be because the data is not “clean.” Maybe we haven’t done as good a job as we should have in storing data.  Maybe we want you to NEED us to provide you with answers.
  • Once you have the data, we don’t know what you might do with it; how you might try to use it; with whom you might (intentionally or unintentionally) share it; or, how you might corrupt it.

No longer.

Exponam .BIGTM files make data sets portable, secure, and tamper-proof. 

The Exponam ExplorerTM makes filtering and sorting data easy and fast. No need to ask your IT group to run queries for you. You don’t need to wait for someone to create custom reports.

We architected Exponam .BIG files to be the most secure data files on the market. (See Free Your Data for more on security.)

It’s your data. Download. Share. Explore.

Find out more. Visit www.exponam.com

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You Can’t Handle Your Data!!!

We say YES! WE! CAN!

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Visualization tools and summary reports are great. But sometimes, WE WANT THE DATA!

We created .BIG™ files so we could download millions or even 100s of millions of records easily, quickly, and securely.

The Exponam Explorer™ empowers us to view, filter, and sort .BIG files instantly. We can find data and transfer it seamlessly to MS Excel.

Try it yourself! Download the Exponam Explorer. It comes pre-installed with sample .BIG files. And then, tell your IT team that you want to download your own data with .BIG files.