Kinnami AmiShare Product Sheet
Secure Resilient Data Mesh: Kinnami AmiShare™ transforms data protection for our digital world.
Organizations are faced with managing data security, safety and availability across increasingly complex distributed computing infrastructures. Data may reside in your data center, in the cloud, at the digital edge, and through externally linked applications and platforms. Safeguarding important data from corruption, compromise, loss and privacy, and providing availability where and when data is needed has also become increasingly complex. The solutions of the past offering data security, protection or availability are being used as a patchwork solution and do not work well in this increasingly diverse distributed data paradigm.
Kinnami’s secure resilient data mesh, AmiShare, is a unified way to manage data availability, protection and security in this connected world. AmiShare automates an otherwise complex process and eliminates the patchwork of systems required to ensure resilient data across your distributed enterprise from digital edge to data center, on premise computing and cloud.
01 Data Owners & Administrators
Kinnami takes a Zero Trust approach toward protecting and securing your data. We separate data ownership and privacy from the administration of policy. The administrator’s role is to administer policy as defined by your organization. Administrative policy manages where and when data are stored, who may access it, and who may collaborate with whom. Administrators are unable to access the data themselves.
AmiShare separates the capabilities of data owners (those who create, modify and otherwise use data), from system administrators. Administrators define and administer policy. Data privacy is kept at the ownership-level and is secure from tampering, even by those with administrative rights. This way highly sensitive information is always protected no matter where it resides.
This separation of operational responsibilities more closely matches the different business priorities of data owners and administrators providing better security overall.
Fragmented, Encrypted, Distributed
02 Protection and Security
Data is secured at its origin. Immediately after new data is created, it is split into fragments. The fragments are encrypted uniquely and stored where they were created. The data is then replicated and distributed according to defined policy. Then these encrypted fragments are transmitted across the network to storage devices defined by administrator policies.
Trustworthy, reliable data is available on any network, using any type of storage—even in real-time and in unstable network environments. Ownership is preserved and protected even in networks you may not control.
03 Audit System
Using metadata about the users, the stores and the data, policies define goals for the distributed storage system for AmiShare to decide which stores hold what fragments. When the policy or environment change, fragments are moved around the network to reflect the new state. This creates a resilient, immutable, auditable data mesh.
AmiShare’s access subsystem surveils and audits the entire computer for data leaks or other unusual behavior. Threat detection systems can use this information to detect anomalies such as a user off-loading large datasets, which can drive access policy rules. All this increases system administrators’ visibility into users’ behavior without needing access to the end-user’s data.
AmiShare’s auditing system tracks end-user operations at access points and storage locations as well as administrative operations assuring data remains confidential. Versioning provides a complete audit trail. AmiShare provides proof of data authenticity.
Audit information can be transferred to external threat detection systems to improve their accuracy and capability. AmiShare’s policy engine can work with external threat detection systems to determine where fragments are stored and to automate the security response to attacks.
04 Smart Data Movement
AmiShare automatically controls access and movement of data. Data is moved to the most reliable and efficient storage based on demand and conditions such as bandwidth. Data is always available and automatically optimized for cost. In cases where bandwidth is not reliable, data can be moved in advance of its use and available for use when needed.
Kinnami AmiShare automatically moves data and controls access to stay compliant. Data access policy can even be aligned with parameters such as GPS in order to meet GDPR compliance, or calendar apps that can identify scheduled travel and proactively move data.
05 Intelligent Policy Engine
The policy engine automates intelligent distribution of data and optimizes for data resilience. System administrators only need to align policy for storage devices according to attributes such as physical security, location and ownership, the policy engine does the rest.
Policy definitions are dynamic. Our security and auditing tools are specifically built to assess data security including tracking data owners and administrator behavior. Data access patterns are identified and used to develop and implement threat detection policies. This way user access can be cut-off immediately in the event of an anomaly. Administering policy for third-party tools is also easier.
Distributed networks & storage
Peer-to-peer networks
IoT Edge devices
Autonomous
Unsecured networks
Smart data movement
Client-side encryption
Replication & versioning
Auto-data recovery
GDPR/Compliance