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Sharding to Contain the Blast Radius of Data Breaches


Modern SaaS platforms sit on top of massive, multi-tenant data stores. When those stores are breached, the damage is rarely limited to a single record; it is often “wholesale” compromise of large slices of the user base. For a CISO or CTO, this is the critical risk: not that a record can be stolen, but that everything a given system knows becomes available in one incident.

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