1. Hassan Jaferi
February 15, 2017
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2. What is MaRS innovation
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3. Bitnobi - “Secure Sharing of Big Data”
Dr. Marin Litiou
Former IBMer
CERAS YorkU
Dr. Mark Shtern
Associate Prof., Seneca
Computer security/data security expert
Big data/cloud computing expert
Genesis of Bitnobi
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4. problem
How to convert Big Data into consumable digital products while conforming to security and privacy rules?
Internal Users or Third Party Users
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5. More problems IT Administrator Business Analyst/Data Scientist
- Requests to provision data
- Inadequate data access credentials
- Direct access or sandboxing data
- Inefficient use of time (i.e. waiting
to get data)
- Worrying about data privacy
& data security
- Too many data sets to sift through
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6. Internal data sharing scenario
Analyst
Analyst
Analyst
Analyst
Operations
Operations
Operations
Operations
Customer
Service
Customer
Service
Customer
Service
Customer
Service
Operations
Analyst
Operations
Analyst
Customer
Service
Customer
Service
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7. Bitnobi is…
a big data exchange company that allows end users to acquire data segments easier, faster and more securely from data owners
Helps data analysis and data visualization
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8. solution Data Security & Privacy User-attribute policy
Data identification & preview
Construct Data Product via workflow tool
Expose data products for data sharing
Construct data product involves: access control, pricing, data segmentation and dealing with data liability
Data Security & Privacy
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9. Data Systems Infrastructure and/or Big Data Platform
Bitnobi architecture UI
REST APIs
Access
Control
Provisioning,
Moni-toring
Programming
Platform
Execution
platform
Repository
Reporting
Config
management
Bitnobi
User jobs
Data Virtualization
Big Data
Data Systems Infrastructure and/or Big Data Platform
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10. Internal data sharing scenario
Analyst
Operations ✔ ✗
Operations
Customer
Service
Analyst ✗ ✔ ✔
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11. External data sharing Government Organization Financial Institution
Third Party Data Analyzer ✔ ✔ ✔
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12. solution Data exchange platform that allows for:
Secure, privacy protective, access of data segments
Data provenance
Use of existing big data applications through building a “Bitnobi” workflow
Increased capacity to work with one or more big data sets resulting in better insights in less time
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13. On-the-fly data privacy/security
competition
Data Access
Control
On-the-fly data privacy/security
Data Isolation
Visual Workflow Tool
Bitnobi ✔ ✗ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✗ ✔
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14. Intellectual property
“Systems and Methods of Precision Sharing of Big Data”
U.S. 14/ and CA
Filing date: June 23, 2014
JANUARY 2017 UPDATE: ISSUED U.S. PATENT
“Systems and Methods of Controlled Sharing of Big Data”
PCT/CA2015/051182
Filing date: December 4, 2015
JANUARY 2017 UPDATE: CANADIAN PATENT APPLICATION ALLOWED
“Method and Apparatus for Collecting, Renting, Selling, Buying Personal Data”
No public disclosure. IP to be filed.
Bitnobi
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15. summary
Big problem being solved for data providers, business analysts/data scientists
Bitnobi is a simple, easy-to-use tool that can be deployed very quickly
Strong team bringing this technology from the lab to the market
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16. Thank You
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17. backup
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18. Key features Access Control System for Big Data
On-the-fly data transformation (e.g., obfuscation, anonymization, ...)
Runtime segmentation of Big Data
Isolation (i.e., sandboxed)
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