Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in sectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness.
Merit ingests and processes highly sensitive data from a variety of government agencies. Privacy and security are of the utmost importance, but they must also balance data utility. To support customer and business needs, Merit uses a combination of off the shelf data stack tools and technologies along with off homegrown techniques around encryption and encryption key management.
Staff engineer and data tech lead, Charlie Summers, joins the show to breakdown Merit’s data stack, the life of data, the challenges they’ve faced with protecting sensitive data, and the ways they secure customer data.
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