Eric Newcomer

New York

Architect, analyst, fractional CTO. Database, transaction processing, cloud, distrubuted systems. Also craft beer, blues, and jazz.

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DataVantage: Managing Data for Testing, Security, and Compliance

5 days ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefIt’s typically expensive and difficult to set up test environments that duplicate production system configurations, especially for applications with large data sets. Not to mention how hard it is to protect against the risk of a breach that exposes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or violates a privacy regulation such as GDPR.
martini.ai: AI Assisted Risk Assessments for Private Credit

3 weeks ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy Briefmartini.ai leverages AI to generate daily risk ratings for 3.5M companies, analyzes those ratings in the context of public and private data, and produces dashboards and reports as input to risk related decisions for private credit and investment services. Their set of 35 AI agents evaluate credit risk for a broad range of comparable businesses and “what if” scenarios, and do so rapidly.
Transaction Processing: Then and Now

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

Intellyx Cortex Newsletter by Eric NewcomerI recently hosted a podcast for BMC Software on the subject of mainframes in financial services, and talked about my experiences with mainframe systems at Credit Suisse and Citigroup. It got me thinking about my early days in the database and transaction processing industry, and why mainframes are still so good at high volume, reliable transaction processing.
Vantiq: Real Time Event Based Integration with AI

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefVantiq’s platform provides a low code GUI to build and deploy data streaming integrations that connect enterprise applications with IoT devices to orchestrate responses to real time events. Applications of Vantiq’s platform include systems that immediately respond to real world events in health care, defense, energy, telecom, construction, and security, among others.
How Deepfakes Are Undermining Mobile Commerce Security

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

ECommerce Times article by Jack M. Germain… In late February, Appdome announced an extension to its Account Takeover Protection suite with 30 new dynamic defense plugins for Deep Fake Detection in Android and iOS apps. These plugins better ensure the integrity of Apple Face ID, Google Face Recognition, and third-party face and voice recognition services against AI-generated and other deepfake attacks.
IndyKite: Connecting Identity Management and Data Access

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefIndyKite onboards your data sources, graphs the relationships among data items, and uses identity to control access to the data. The IndyKite graph retrieves data relevant to an identity in real time, within the context of an application (including AI applications), and uses identity to implement policies guarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance. IndyKite identities include humans and things.
Collibra: Adding AI to their Data Governance Platform

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefCollbira adds AI governance to their data governance platform, receiving ISO 42001 certification, and signing on to the European Commission’s AI Pact. They also provide an AI Pact assessment tool. Collibra’s platform helps customers manage data using a data catalogue, tracking data owners, ensuring data quality and lineage, tracking who’s accessing the data, setting entitlements, and ensuring data privacy.
Mavvrik: Comprehensive Tech Cost Manaagement

1 month ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefIT costs are always difficult to estimate, especially project costs. Application development, maintenance, or modernization projects often run late and over budget, and the cost to host and run them isn’t easy to calculate. Mavvrik offers comprehensive public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, AI, and SaaS cost optimization, control, and governance.
Lunar.dev: API Gateway for External API Control and Governance

2 months ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

An Intellyx Brain Candy BriefLunar.dev’s API gateway manages and governs calls to third-party APIs such as those exposed by business partners, SaaS applications, and gen AI LLMs.While most API gateway products are designed for incoming (ingress) API traffic, Lunar.dev is designed for outgoing (egress) API traffic. The Lunar.dev Consumption Gateway handles large volumes of traffic reliably for organizations that depend on external APIs for mission-critical applications.
Appdome Launches Innovative Solutions to Combat Deep Fakes

2 months ago | intellyx.com | Eric Newcomer

Article by Kelly Martin for Investors Hangout Why Deep Fake Detection MattersAs mobile technology continues to integrate biometric authentication within various applications, the integrity of these systems is more crucial than ever. Eric Newcomer, CTO and Principal Analyst at Intellyx, noted the growing dependence on these methods to enhance user experience. Unfortunately, this reliance comes with the risk of sophisticated attacks aimed at bypassing such security measures.