Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX) addresses a core cybersecurity challenge: securing distributed data environments without sacrificing compliance or control. By embedding unified security, governance, and metadata management directly into the Cloudera data and AI platform, SDX provides comprehensive visibility across vast, hybrid data estates while preserving trust. Unlike fragmented governance tools that operate in silos, SDX delivers a centralized policy framework that enforces consistent controls across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Powered by Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas, SDX enforces fine-grained, role-based, and attribute-based access controls across both data and metadata, ensuring that only authorized users and AI workloads can access sensitive information. These controls extend to AI training datasets and persist as data moves through machine learning pipelines, maintaining consistent policy enforcement throughout the AI lifecycle. As a result, SDX helps prevent unauthorized model training, reduce policy drift, protect sensitive information, and support audit readiness in increasingly regulated environments.
SDX is also secure by design. Cloudera has strengthened our platform through software supply chain hardening and architectural security improvements, reducing vulnerability exposure by more than 90% across platform components. This measurable risk reduction significantly enhances enterprise protection for mission-critical AI deployments.
Organizations across industries rely on SDX to operationalize AI securely at scale. Examples from customers include a global telecommunications provider that processes nearly 20TB of data daily to power AI-driven personalization under centralized governance controls, while a connected vehicle manufacturer analyzes billions of data rows in hours, reducing maintenance costs by more than 30%, with unified data policies enforced across analytics workloads. These outcomes demonstrate that strong AI innovation and measurable business impact are possible without compromising security, compliance, or control.
Cloudera currently manages more than 25 exabytes of enterprise data globally. At this scale, AI governance cannot be fragmented or reactive. SDX delivers automated, hybrid-native security and governance that enable organizations to confidently innovate with AI, ensuring data is protected, policies are enforced, and compliance is maintained wherever AI runs.
