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Databricks Launches Lakewatch, an AI-Powered Security Tool for Data Lakes

The company will bill for the work the software does to avoid the high costs tied to data volume.

Overview

  • Databricks, which unveiled Lakewatch Tuesday, said the tool uses Anthropic’s Claude to spot and probe threats in data kept in cloud lake services.
  • Adobe and National Australia Bank are using the product, according to the company.
  • Pricing will be based on how much compute the software runs, not how much data a customer stores, and Databricks will not charge for storage.
  • Tech and teams from two small acquisitions, Antimatter and SiftD.ai, power the product, with Antimatter founder Andrew Krioukov now leading Lakewatch.
  • CNBC casts the launch as a bid to challenge SIEM tools that collect and analyze security logs from Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Google, and Microsoft as Databricks readies for a possible IPO after a recent $5 billion raise.