Chorology: Interview With CEO/CTO And Founder Tarique Mustafa About AI-Powered Data Compliance

By Amit Chowdhry • Dec 13, 2024

Chorology is an innovator in AI-powered data compliance and security posture management that provides modern, intelligently automated enterprise compliance solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Chorology CEO and CTO Tarique Mustafa to learn more about the company.

Formation Of Chorology

How did the idea for Chorology come together?

Two years ago, during a roundtable discussion with 14 CISOs and CIOs, the Chorology co-founders learned about the most pressing problems faced by top data security practitioners. The feedback was unanimous: ‘We don’t know where our sensitive data is. If we don’t know what sensitive data we have and where it is located, then how can we effectively manage and secure it?’”

Chorology’s founder, Tarique Mustafa, identified a robust AI-based solution. Mustafa, who began his life as a gifted Pakistani child and graduated high school at a very young age, then achieved higher degrees that included twin master’s degrees and PhD research work in AI from USC, led his innovation team to a crucial realization. They concluded that today’s compliance solutions lack the ‘compliance technology engine’ required by enterprises to cost-effectively know their data well enough to quantify and improve their data security risk over time. Current solutions are mostly compliance workflow management platforms without a core AI compliance “engine.”

Mustafa and his team knew that one type of AI capability, machine learning, would never solve this problem for many foundational reasons. Instead, they worked diligently to invent unique deep AI algorithms that automate data discovery, classification, mapping, and compliance enforcement using the core AI principles of knowledge representation, inference calculus, and planning.

Favorite Memory

What has Mustafa’s favorite memory of working for the company been so far? Mustafa said:

“One of my favorite memories of working for CHOROLOGY is the seminal moment when the USPTO patent examiner explicitly recognized the value our team had created. In one of our patents, the examiner states, “ However, none of the cited prior arts.. disclose, or reasonably suggest the … features of an ‘executable planning model” … to process a Data Subject Request (DSR) as required in these independent claims.” The conclusion of this patent examiner is a rare and very positive USPTO comment, highlighting the innovative nature of our research and the impact we are making in the industry.

Core Products

What are Chorology’s core products? Mustafa explained:

“The Chorology Platform is powered by a Deep AI engine that intelligently automates data compliance and security posture enforcement. Automated enterprise data security solutions include:

– Data Discovery

– Data Classification

– Data Mapping & Risk Assessment

– DSPM Enforcement

– Connectors for structured and unstructured data repositories, on-premise and in-cloud.”

Evolution Of CAPE Technology

How will the technology of the CAPE platform evolve over the next 12-18 months? Mustafa noted:

“Over the next 12-18 months, CHOROLOGY’s technology will evolve as we expand our AI-powered Data Compliance and Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform. Leveraging our Deep-AI engine core, we aim to offer new solutions that further automate enterprise data compliance and security, ensuring organizations increase the accuracy, speed, and coverage of data compliance operations while future-proofing the organization for new regulatory mandates.

For instance, we have already secured patents for the automated remediation of Data Subject Requests (DSRs) which today are a massive drain on time, energy and resources. We are in the process of productizing these DSR automation technologies for a 2025 release. This will enable enterprise compliance organizations to automatically respond to and execute inbound consumer Data Subject Requests, significantly lowering the total cost of sensitive data ownership (TCO).”

Challenges Faced

What challenges have Mustafa and the team faced in building the company? Mustafa acknowledged:

“Yes – many technical challenges related to exponentially rising enterprise data volumes.”

“By 2025, the volume of data and information created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide is forecasted to reach 181 zettabytes (that is 181 followed by 21 zeros). Nearly 80% of companies estimate that 50% to 90% of their data is unstructured, encompassing text, video, audio, web server logs, and social media activities. Data professionals report that data volumes in their companies are growing by an average of 63% every month, with nearly six in ten organizations admitting they can’t keep up. As enterprise data volume and sprawl expand, data breaches are also increasing, leading to a corresponding rise in compliance fines. More data means more data risk, which translates to a larger attack surface and therefore larger business risk.

From these unstructured data volume market realities, we realized very early on that one type of classical AI capability, machine learning, would never be a solution to these data compliance problems for many foundational reasons. It is impossible for AI systems to create learning models from enterprise data volumes that are always changing and when data objects and data structures are unknown in advance of the learning.”

“The Chorology team rolled up its sleeves to apply another core AI capability to invent unique Deep AI algorithms that intelligently automate data discovery, classification, mapping, and posture enforcement with no upfront machine learning or model training. This was a very hard technical problem to solve requiring the use of the other classical AI components such as knowledge representation, inference calculus, and planning.”

Significant Milestones

What have been some of CHOROLOGY’s most significant milestones? Mustafa cited:

“In Q4 2021, we secured a $9 million strategic investment, marking a significant milestone for our company. Our commitment to innovation was further recognized in Q2 and Q3 of 2024 when the USPTO granted us four blocking patents for our paradigm-shifting compliance automation technology within just four months. Building on this momentum, we are poised to introduce our product to the market along with Beta customers in Q4 2024.”

Funding/Revenue

Where does CHOROLOGY sit in terms of funding and/or revenue metrics? Mustafa revealed:

“Chorology secured a $9 million strategic investment in Q4 2021, establishing a strong financial foundation. The company plans to begin monetization efforts in Q4 2024, with expectations to reach cash flow breakeven by 2025.”

Differentiation From The Competition

What differentiates the company from its competition? Mustafa affirmed:

“Chorology’s competitive differentiation is anchored in its patented, Deep AI core compliance engine (ACE) that is entirely knowledge object based. This innovative engine is mandate-agnostic which allows enterprises to enforce their security posture across any compliance mandate. The ACE engine utilizes data and knowledge objects, including ‘canonical’ and ‘composite’ types, enabling the discovery of sensitive data across any structure, whether unstructured or structured data repositories.”

It ensures accurate, intelligently automated data discovery, classification, and data mapping, all without any machine-learning overhead. Unlike other technologies, CHOROLOGY’s solution does not sit on the repositories to monitor them, thus posing no impact or risk to enterprise database performance. Additionally, while most compliance solutions focus on workflow and ticketing platforms without a true compliance and data security technology engine, CHOROLOGY uniquely offers automated data discovery, classification, mapping, and posture enforcement, setting it apart in the market as measured by total cost of data ownership”

Future Goals

What are some of your future goals for Chorology? Mustafa concluded:

“Chorology’s future goals include expanding the industry verticals the company serves, launching automated data subject request remediation in 2025, and creating go-to-market channel partnerships with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators (SIs), and other large enterprise compliance consulting firms. These partnerships will be based on shared-value models to accelerate CHOROLOGY’s global footprint.”

https://pulse2.com/chorology-profile-tarique-mustafa-interview/

Chorology Announces The First AI-Powered Compliance Engine to Auto-Identify, Discover, Contextualize, and Classify Sensitive Data at Ultra High-Speed and Scale

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Mandate-Agnostic AI Data Compliance and DSPM Technology Breaks Compliance Industry Barriers and Future-Proofs Enterprises for Emerging Regulations

SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 28, 2024 – CHOROLOGY.ai, an innovator in AI-based compliance and security posture management, today uncovered the AI innovations behind its Compliance and Posture Enforcement (CAPE) Platform to reveal Compliance and DSPM industry-firsts in artificial intelligence. Powered by a confluence of three core AI technology sub-fields, Chorology’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) is built on AI-based Knowledge Encoding, a powerful new Domain Language Model (DLM) Paradigm, and AI Planning Automation. These patented technologies coalesce, providing the first and only mandate-agnostic solution to deliver a complete view of ALL sensitive enterprise data (known and unknown) throughout structured and unstructured environments.

Several compliance and security challenges continue to pose major risks to organizations making technology that accurately identifies, contextualizes and classifies data a must-have. Most organizations are incapable of discovering and classifying unknown sensitive data in unstructured repositories. Regulatory mandates are constantly changing and expanding, as worldwide enterprise data volumes and data sprawl continue to rise exponentially with forecasts at 181 Zettabytes by 2025.^[1] In addition, CISOs, CIOs and CTOs are investing in new forms of AI (such as LLMs) to transform business processes. This use of AI/ML heavily relies on the secure exchange of data at rest and enroute creating even more need to know and protect sensitive data.

A related and still unsolved compliance challenge is efficiently responding to consumers’ Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs). To illustrate, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and EU’s GDPR both say that consumers have the right to make requests to businesses about the personal information collected, the commercial purpose for collecting their information, the third parties to whom the business discloses said information, and the specific pieces of information collected. The CCPA provides a 45-day window to respond to a consumer’s data request and only 30 days under GDPR. Failure to respond to consumer DSARs can leave organizations open to a higher level of administrative fines and financial risk under the GDPR: £17.5 million or up to 4% of annual global turnover – whichever is greater.^[2]

Last, the volume of DSARs is only growing, increasing the need for DSAR automation. According to Statista, “In 2023, 28 percent of internet users worldwide stated having exercised their DSAR rights, up from 24 percent in 2022 resulting in rising requests submitted to companies that collect and keep user data.”

Chorology’s patented compliance automation engine is the first of its kind to employ the core AI technology principles of knowledge encoding and planning automation, without the need for machine learning. This powerful combination empowers ACE with the industry’s first intelligent data compliance and DSPM framework that uniquely frames enterprise data under management as knowledge objects. With this AI framing, very large repositories of sensitive data can be discovered, identified and classified at ultra-high speed and scale. These advancements also enable automated processing of DSARs which can number in the tens of thousands per month, with massive savings in time and penalty avoidance.

By structuring compliance knowledge objects, a practitioner in any industry is now able to apply powerful compliance and governance automation including automated data mapping, risk assessment and DSPM – in ways that are many times more effective and efficient. At today’s rising data volume and sprawl, the field of sensitive data discovery, compliance and security requires highly precise data discovery and classification to generate reliably accurate data risk assessments. The important implication is that these automated compliance and DSPM processes are based on deterministic frame-based AI structured knowledge, which is much faster and more accurate than inefficient, probabilistic-based machine learning AI methods.

Chorology’s Automated Compliance Engine, the AI technology core behind CAPE, is mandate-agnostic and scalable with underlying technologies that make it capable of being extended to future mandates while deprecating system requirements for current mandates. This model reduces the cost of enterprise data compliance and helps expand margins of organizations whose revenue heavily relies on data, by avoiding multiple repository passes or the need for software agents on every repository. This allows organizations to use a single compliance platform with streamlined discovery, requiring only one comprehensive scan of the data across all repositories.

“Built on a groundbreaking knowledge-based paradigm, Chorology’s intelligently automated compliance engine now makes it possible to automatically discover all known and unknown sensitive data throughout the enterprise’s data universe, where compliance policies can then be automatically applied.” said Tarique Mustafa, CEO/CTO and Founder of Chorology.ai. “Our mandate-adaptive technology uniquely applies knowledge representation and inference encoding disciplines into the artificial intelligence and language understanding to very accurately discover, identify, classify and map data at scale which has not been possible previously.”

Additional Resources

Download the Chorology white papers titled
- Deep AI Powered Platform for Data Discovery, Governance and Compliance Enforcement at https://chorology.ai/resources/
- Separating AI Hype from Reality in Data Compliance https://chorology.ai/resources/
Learn more about the use cases and customer benefits at https://chorology.ai/solution/

About Chorology, Inc. CHOROLOGY.ai is headquartered in San Jose, Silicon Valley, California with development offices in South Asia. Contact info@chorology.ai, (408) 713-3303, 2001 Gateway Place, Ste: 710 West Tower, San Jose, CA-95110, USA. Learn more by visiting https://www.chorology.ai/

^[1] ITC, IDC, Gartner

^[2] IT Governance UK

Crossing The Compliance Chasm: Part 1 of a 3-Part Chorology Thought Leadership Series

The Impact of Data Compliance on Business and Profitability

Synopsis:

The gap between regulatory compliance mandates and practical implementation and enforcement is widening. Many would characterize the gap as a “Compliance Chasm”. As digital technology penetrates every aspect of modern life, enterprise data volume and data sprawl are growing exponentially. To protect consumers, compliance and governance bodies are increasing data regulations without consideration for the economic and operational impact on business enterprises.

Despite rising investments in privacy, security and compliance, today’s whack-a-mole enterprise strategy of reacting to new compliance mandates is not keeping up. To “Cross the Compliance Chasm” and take back control to stop expanding enterprise risks, new thinking is required to reduce the cost, complexity and impact of implementing current mandates, while future proofing the enterprise for new regulatory environments.

Enterprises Are Facing Multiple Expanding Enterprise Risks

Large Compliance Fines

The frequency and size of regulatory fines are rising for enterprises that do not properly protect consumers’ data. In January 2023, Meta was fined $225M and $193M for Facebook and Instagram for GDPR violations respectively by the Irish Data Protection Commission. Other GDPR violations include $99 million (€90M) in fines to Google by France’s CNIL and $877 million (then €746 million) to Amazon in 2021 by Luxembourg officials. By May 2023, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission concluded an enquiry into Meta Ireland and fined the social media giant an additional $1.3 billion (€1.2B) for additional violations.

Exponentially Rising Enterprise Data

By 2025 the volume of data/information created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide is forecasted to reach 181 Zettabytes.[1] (That is 181 followed by 21 zeros.) Nearly 80% of companies estimate that 50%-90% of their data is unstructured.[2] Think text, video, audio, web server logs, or social media activities. Data professionals see data volumes growing by an average of 63% every month in their companies – and nearly six in 10 organizations say they can’t keep up.[3]As enterprise data expands, data breaches are increasing with a corresponding rise in compliance fines. More data means more data risk and therefore business risk.

[1] IDC; Seagate, Statista 2024

[2] ITC, IDC, Gartner and ESOMAR’s Global Market Research 2022

[3] Dataversity, 8/14/2023

Growth in Consumer Profiling

Over the past decades, billions of dollars have been invested in business intelligence and analytics to turn customer engagement and transactional data into behavioral profiles. Enterprises have also been actively buying and selling customers’ individual data to enhance the breadth and depth of these profiles. Better data results in better customer understanding, when used in real-time, increases engagement and monetization.

Over the last few decades, these customer data-driven practices have become synonymous with “business as usual”. Compliant or not, the truth remains that customer data and its use is of high value to businesses. Profitability has become highly dependent on deep customer understanding, powered by petabytes of sensitive and anonymous consumer data in use before, during and after purchase. “Business as usual” is expanding the Compliance Chasm and associated business risks, with almost no end in sight.

Hidden Perils

Beyond the risks from rising data volumes, data sprawl, and “business as usual”, enterprises also face rising risk from unintended effects of third parties. Large corporate data incidents make for primetime news headlines and revenue. As news spreads about data breaches, consumer fear spikes. Fearful consumers then submit DSRs (enterprise data service requests) to remove their personal data and reduce their exposure. The increased DSR volume is expensive to process in today’s highly manual data compliance and enterprise IT workflows.

Another source of hidden enterprise risk comes from profit-driven attorneys with technical skills and international reach, who can detect compliance violations in cross-border enterprises. Large class action lawsuits with big attorney fees are becoming commonplace and the payoff in settlement fees can be substantial for attorneys who are skilled at weaponizing compliance mandates against public or private companies.

Compliance Disconnect

Today’s global, national, and regional data compliance mandates were created with the best of intentions – to protect consumers’ privacy and keep their data secure. But this “protection” has come at a very steep cost and burden to digital enterprises Most security and privacy compliance policies have been formulated without enough consideration for the impact on business enterprises.

More importantly, these compliance policies were created long before adequate and scalable technologies emerged to enforce these policies. The technical and operating challenges for digital enterprises and organizations go much deeper than most government compliance bodies appreciate. Today’s security, privacy, and data compliance technology solutions are simply not keeping up with protecting enterprises and therefore, their customers’ data either.

See Part 2 for How Businesses are Responding to the Compliance Chasm

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For further information please contact: info@chorology.ai

Chorology, Inc.

2001 Gateway Place, Suite 710, West Tower,

San Jose, CA. 95110 | Main: (408) 713-3303

Crossing The Compliance Chasm: Part 2 of a 3-Part Chorology Thought Leadership Series

How Are Businesses Likely to Respond to Future Compliance Mandates?

Given the risks and costs of responding to today’s compliance mandates, enterprises are likely to start pushing back (strongly) on emerging regulations. The costs from compliance implementation, enforcement, servicing DSRs, and paying regulators’ compliance fines will continue to rise as will lost revenue from re-designing or entirely dismantling data-driven consumer services to meet current mandates. Businesses with problematic compliance infrastructure have few choices until new thinking is applied to platforms and tools to intelligently automate compliance and enforcement.

Compliance Infrastructure Choices Can Sacrifice Profitability

Data compliance and enforcement within enterprises is a very intrusive, time-consuming, and costly process. Many enterprises have invested in narrow tools and technology platforms optimized for a single mandate, such as GDPR in the EU, which does not adequately solve for compliance regulations of another mandate such as CCPA in California. Selection of the wrong compliance tools and technology platforms can have devastating intermediate and long-term impact to income and balance sheets after unplanned intra-year investments are required to meet increasingly complex requirements.

How Can Businesses Comply Without Sacrificing Profitability?

There are two lines of thinking that make up the best approach for selecting the right compliance tools and technology to meet the mandate(s). First, enterprises must stay informed of the evolving nature of compliance regulations and the major data technology trends driving business value. They must find and select compliance tools with core technology that is aligned with these enterprise data trends. Second, enterprises must adopt technology, tools and practices that provide compliance assurance without compromising business objectives. They must seek out solutions that can ensure compliance and enforcement without scaling costs, as data volumes, sprawl and regulatory mandates expand.

Is Technology Available for Decreasing Compliance Complexity and Cost?

Compliance platforms that have evolved over the past thirty years mostly driven by whack-a-mole responses to new mandates, come with two major deficiencies.

First, discovery and classification functions within many of today’s platforms are still limited to known data objects such as a customer’s SSN or an address. In designing their platforms for specific compliance mandates, developers unwittingly constrained their platform capabilities to simple data types within structured data repositories. Many legacy platforms are incapable of complex data object discovery and classification, and cannot accurately discover data objects in unstructured data repositories

A second major deficiency of today’s data compliance platforms is sufficiently automated compliance enforcement. Most of these platforms employ manual processes with marginal automation. They are EXTREMELY LIMITED in their ability to effectuate the data object transforms required to avoid sacrificing business utility. In short, the core capabilities of these platforms are designed for single data compliance mandates , but not for flexibility in data types, cloud or on-prem repositories, scalability, or cost-efficiency across mandates. For example, a digital health enterprise that requires data compliance across PII, GDPR and HIPPA mandates.

In short, legacy data compliance platforms are not “abstracted” to efficiently work across compliance mandates or data types stored in structured AND unstructured data repositories, on-prem and in-the-cloud.

See Part 3 to Learn How Best-in-Breed Solutions are Helping Businesses Cross the Compliance Chasm

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2001 Gateway Place, Suite 710, West Tower,

San Jose, CA. 95110 | Main: (408) 713-3303

Chorology Sets New Standard in Data Compliance and Security Posture Management

By Anna Wood

CHOROLOGY, a pioneer in compliance and security posture management, has recently come out of stealth mode to offer innovative data governance solutions. Built on patented Deep Artificial Intelligence technology, CHOROLOGY aims to address the challenges of ineffective enterprise data compliance, security, and privacy solutions.

The company, bolstered by a $9 million Series-A strategic investment and a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients, is well-supported by investors, seasoned advisors, and an experienced management team with a history of success in the security and compliance sector.

CHOROLOGY is establishing a new industry standard for robust data compliance and security posture management across the Global 2000. The company’s solutions are designed to mitigate the risks associated with uncontrolled and unmanaged data, increasing data breaches, and the fragmented nature of current security approaches. CHOROLOGY presents a new model in data compliance, integrating all compliance, privacy, and security mandates into one seamless platform. The CHOROLOGY.ai platform uniquely manages all data types and compliance requirements, streamlining the process and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for managing data compliance and security.

Introducing CHOROLOGY.ai, the company provides top-tier compliance and security posture management solutions that cater to both on-premises and cloud-based enterprise data. The product suite addresses data compliance and security concerns in an intuitive and user-friendly manner, eliminating the need for extensive training and keeping operational costs low. This solution emerged from the need to overcome the shortcomings of other tools that fail to provide comprehensive security assessments or an accurate threat landscape.

The CHOROLOGY.ai platform is the first to offer a detailed understanding of data sprawl without extensive pre-processing or machine learning demands. It safeguards sensitive data against rising internal and external threats and expanding regulatory compliance requirements while significantly reducing the TCO of managing enterprise data. CHOROLOGY stands out with its advanced AI-powered features, including an Auto-Data Discovery Engine with high accuracy, a versatile Auto-Data Classification Engine that handles all data modalities, and the sophisticated Auto-Data Mapping Engine. Together, these features create a comprehensive framework for data security risk and compliance posture management, elevating enterprise data governance to new heights.

“With CHOROLOGY’s industry-leading data compliance and posture enforcement solution (CAPE) – now enterprises have an intelligently automated DSPM engine that can discover and classify sensitive structured and unstructured data stored in on-prem and cloud repositories. CAPE’s Deep-AI engine lets enterprises narrow the gap between regulatory mandates and practical compliance implementation. By using Chorology’s security and compliance platform, we are not only protecting our vast ecosystem of sensitive data at an overall lower total cost of ownership, but setting a new benchmark for security and compliance management excellence in our industry,” said Sam Phillips, ex-CISO for Bank of America.

“The gap between today’s compliance mandates and practical enterprise implementation is widening. With Chorology’s intelligently automated data Compliance and Posture Enforcement solutions (CAPE), now enterprises can achieve lower total cost of data ownership while efficiently future proofing their organizations for business growth and the emerging regulatory environment,” said Vas Kodali, former EVP for Wells Fargo Bank.

“When it comes to assuring the full compliance and security of their organization’s data, CISOs face a big challenge. They simply don’t know which data across all of their storage, sources and repositories – on-prem, cloud or SaaS hosted – is relevant or even related to any particular compliance or legal issue. CHOROLOGY’s compliance and security posture management solution fills in the knowledge gaps commonly found in today’s data governance frameworks,” said Mike Matchett, Principal Analyst, Small World Big Data/Truth in IT. “CHOROLOGY’s end-to-end data assessments and proactive protection strategies align well with the market’s demand for intelligently automated solutions, especially in the face of growing regulatory complexities and unending cyber threats.”

“CHOROLOGY’s Deep AI-powered platform is a game-changer in the area of data compliance and security posture management as the amount of work and time it will save the average user is massive. By addressing the critical gaps in current enterprise data governance frameworks, their solution (CAPE) will not only enhance accuracy and efficiency but significantly lower operating costs,” said Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research for Enterprise Management Associates. “This is something I have been wanting to see get developed for years and represents a major step forward for enterprises seeking to resolve the complexities of modern data security and regulatory compliance.”

CHOROLOGY.ai is founded by serial entrepreneurs and industry visionaries in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Tarique Mustafa, the company’s Founder and CEO/CTO has secured several key “blocking” patents in deep artificial intelligence, building upon more than two decades of thorough research and development experience in cybersecurity and deep AI fields. Before founding CHOROLOGY.ai, Tarique founded GhangorCloud which has built the industry’s pioneering 4th Generation Cybersecurity platform. Tarique held several senior level positions with global technology organizations including Symantec, Nevis Networks, Andes Networks, Nextier Networks, and MCI WorldCom. CHOROLOGY’s founding team includes experienced hi-tech executives that bring combined experience in building and successfully marketing multiple industry leading cybersecurity products at Symantec, McAfee, TrendMicro, CISCO, Array Networks.

“Because data breaches and security threats remain a serious problem for organizations worldwide, we are committed to providing powerful solutions that go beyond industry expectations,” said Tarique Mustafa, CEO/CTO of CHOROLOGY. “Our mission is clear: to set a new benchmark in securing data integrity and regulatory compliance, safeguarding the future of digital workflows. The CHOROLOGY’s platform represents a leap forward in this area, offering the most comprehensive and intuitive suite of tools available that moves businesses ahead of threats and evolving compliance mandates.”

https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-chorology-sets-new-standard-compliance-and-data-security-posture-management

Crossing The Compliance Chasm: Part 3 of a 3-Part Chorology Thought Leadership Series

Modern Compliance Technology Solutions – Best in Breed

A new class of data compliance operators have emerged to manage enterprise data privacy, compliance, and security. These best-in-breed data compliance platforms leverage Deep AI to intelligently automate data discovery, classification, mapping, enforcement and processes across mandates, data types and repositories. Data object abstraction combined with automated data mapping and enforcement let compliance teams track and manage risk, across compliance mandates for an enterprise with little human intervention.

Crossing the Compliance Chasm

Modern compliance platforms with intelligently automated components, functions, and workflows enable a new class of efficient, highly scalable data compliance operations. With these modern plaforms, compliance teams can efficiently track, quantify, and mitigate enterprise risks associated with data compliance in the digital age.

By having the ability to efficiently assess, manage and control data risk across compliance mandates, enterprises can increase their confidence in their data security, privacy, and compliance operations as their businesses evolve. Enterprises who employ modern, intelligently automated compliance platforms are “Crossing the Compliance Chasm” by increasing their efficiency and capability in responding to today’s dynamic compliance landscape, while future proofing their compliance organizations for tomorrow’s regulatory environments.

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WhitePaper: Crossing the Compliance Chasm from Regulatory Mandates to Business Practicality

The Impact of Data Compliance on Business and Profitability

The gap between regulatory compliance mandates and practical implementation and enforcement is widening. Many would characterize the gap as a “Compliance Chasm”. As digital technology penetrates every aspect of modern life, enterprise data volume and data sprawl are growing exponentially. To protect consumers, compliance and governance bodies are increasing data regulations without consideration for the economic and operational impact on business enterprises. Despite rising investments in privacy, security and compliance, today’s whack-a-mole enterprise strategy of reacting to new compliance mandates is not keeping up. To take back control and “Cross the Compliance Chasm”, new thinking is required to reduce the cost, complexity and impact of implementing current mandates, while future proofing the enterprise for new regulatory environments

CHOROLOGY, Inc. is Revolutionizing the Way Enterprises Handle Compliance and Data Sprawl

July 29, 2024

by Maya Johnson

CHOROLOGY, a pioneering startup based in Silicon Valley, is revolutionizing the way enterprises handle data sprawl and compliance. By integrating advanced AI-powered features, Chorology provides a comprehensive and innovative approach to data governance, delivering unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in data protection and management.

Understanding Chorology

CHOROLOGY addresses the growing need for secure and efficient data management by offering an advanced solution that requires no extensive pre-processing or machine learning overheads. Their platform is designed to protect sensitive data from internal and external threats while adhering to expanding regulatory compliance mandates. The solution stands out due to its unique AI-powered features: an Auto-Data Discovery Engine with high accuracy, a versatile Auto-Data Classification Engine, and the industry’s most sophisticated Auto-Data Mapping Engine. These features provide a robust framework for managing enterprise data security, compliance, and governance.

Progressing from stealth mode, Chorology has launched its groundbreaking data governance solution built on patented Deep Artificial Intelligence technology. With a $9 million Series-A strategic investment and Fortune 500 clients, Chorology is solidifying its market presence with strong investor backing, experienced advisors, and a veteran management team with decades of success in security and compliance. The company’s innovative approach is set to redefine enterprise data compliance and security.

Company Overview

Name: Chorology
Year Founded: 2024
Type of Company: Software
HQ Location: Silicon Valley
Startup Founder: Tarique Mustafa (CEO/CTO and Founder)
One-Liner: Better Data Compliance is Better Business

Progress and Current Status

Having transitioned from stealth mode, Chorology is now offering a state-of-the-art data governance solution powered by patented Deep AI technology. With a $9 million Series-A investment and Fortune 500 clients, the company is well-positioned in the market. Backed by well-resourced investors, seasoned advisors, and a veteran management team, Chorology is poised for significant growth, aiming to resolve the critical pain points of enterprise data compliance, security, and privacy.

Inspiring Story

Two years ago, during a roundtable discussion with 14 CISOs and CIOs, Chorology’s co-founders identified a critical issue: organizations didn’t know where their sensitive data resided. This revelation led Tarique Mustafa to conceptualize a robust AI-based solution. Tarique, a gifted Pakistani prodigy with advanced degrees from USC, realized that existing compliance solutions lacked a “compliance technology engine.” Alongside his team, Tarique developed unique Deep AI algorithms to automate data discovery, classification, mapping, and compliance enforcement.

By avoiding institutional VC funding, Tarique and his team took the necessary time to develop their holistic solution, resulting in four blocking patents within four months. This effort culminated in the launch of Chorology.ai Enterprise, a Deep AI-based data compliance and security posture management engine (CAPE), poised to transform enterprise data management.

Company Role Model

For innovation, Tarique looks up to Steve Jobs of Apple for his ability to “think different” and create products that were widely appreciated by customers. Jobs’s uncanny ability to innovate and target the right needs resonates with Chorology’s mission.

For invention, Tarique admires IBM for its trust and groundbreaking research. IBM’s innovations, from AI-powered robot microscopes to predictive analytics in sports, exemplify world-class invention and impact. These qualities inspire Chorology’s approach to solving complex data compliance challenges.

Future Outlook

In four years, Chorology aspires to be acknowledged for defining and commercializing a new paradigm in intelligent automation for data compliance and security posture enforcement. Their goal is to address one of the most challenging problems in the compliance industry: automating data discovery, classification, mapping, and security posture enforcement. The Deep AI-based Chorology.ai platform aims to lower the total cost of ownership for sensitive data and prepare enterprises for future compliance mandates. With deployment in hundreds of Fortune 1000 enterprises, Chorology is on the path to becoming a leading player in data governance.

https://www.killerstartups.com/author/maya-johnson/

Compliance startup Chorology launches Deep-AI-powered data governance platform after $9M funding round

Chorology, a new player in the data governance space, has officially launched its AI-driven data governance platform, designed to transform how enterprises manage their data. The startup recently emerged from stealth with a $9 million Series A investment and a roster of Fortune 500 clients.

The field of data governance, which involves ensuring the security, privacy, and compliance of data through various policies, procedures, and technologies, has long been known for its complexity and resource demands. Chorology aims to disrupt this status quo by harnessing artificial intelligence.

The platform offers a suite of AI features that automate critical data governance tasks. For instance, its automated data discovery tool simplifies the challenging process of identifying all organizational data. Additionally, Chorology’s Intelligent Data Classification and Data Mapping tools provide insights into data flow, crucial for effective governance strategies.

Chorology introduces a comprehensive solution for compliance and security posture management, suitable for both on-premises and cloud-based enterprise data. The platform promises to address the shortcomings of existing solutions by offering end-to-end security assessments and a thorough view of organizational threats. Its user-friendly design ensures minimal learning overhead, keeping operational costs low.

As the first platform of its kind, Chorology provides a detailed understanding of data sprawl without extensive pre-processing or machine learning overheads. It protects sensitive data from internal and external threats while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations, all while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise data management.

Key features of the Chorology platform include the Auto-Data Discovery Engine, which offers exceptional accuracy, the versatile Auto-Data Classification Engine, and the sophisticated Auto-Data Mapping Engine. Together, these features create a robust data security risk and compliance posture management framework, enhancing enterprise data governance.

“Chorology’s data compliance and posture enforcement solution (CAPE) allows enterprises to intelligently automate their DSPM engine, discovering and classifying sensitive structured and unstructured data in both on-premises and cloud repositories. CAPE’s Deep-AI engine bridges the gap between regulatory mandates and practical compliance implementation, protecting vast ecosystems of sensitive data at a lower TCO and setting a new industry benchmark,” said Sam Phillips, former CISO for Bank of America.

“The widening gap between compliance mandates and practical implementation poses a significant challenge. Chorology’s CAPE solution helps enterprises achieve lower TCO while future-proofing their organizations for growth and regulatory changes,” said Vas Kodali, former EVP for Wells Fargo.

Mike Matchett, Principal Analyst at Small World Big Data, emphasized, “CISOs face challenges in identifying relevant data across various storage systems. Chorology’s solution fills these gaps, offering comprehensive data assessments and proactive protection strategies, aligning with market demands for automated solutions in the face of regulatory complexities and cyber threats.”

Chris Steffen, VP of Research at Enterprise Management Associates, added, “Chorology’s AI-powered platform is a game-changer, saving significant time and effort. It addresses critical gaps in current data governance frameworks, enhancing accuracy, and efficiency, and reducing operating costs. This development is a major step forward for enterprises tackling modern data security and regulatory compliance complexities.”

Founded by Tarique Mustafa, a seasoned entrepreneur and industry visionary, Chorology builds on extensive research and development in cybersecurity and AI. Mustafa, who previously founded GhangorCloud, brings experience from leading tech organizations like Symantec and McAfee. Chorology’s team includes high-tech executives with a track record of developing and marketing successful cybersecurity products.

“Data breaches and security threats are persistent issues. Our mission is to exceed industry expectations, setting a new standard for data integrity and regulatory compliance,” said Mustafa. “Chorology’s platform represents a leap forward, offering a comprehensive and intuitive suite of tools to stay ahead of threats and compliance mandates.”

Chorology is headquartered in San Jose, Silicon Valley, with development offices in South Asia.

Startup Chorology launches Deep-AI-powered data governance platform

Modern Data Compliance Program and Processes: A Practitioner’s Guide

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