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With the explosive growth of cloud computing over the last decade, unprecedented volumes of data — customer data, product data, statistics, financials, and so on — are being shared between organizations every day. While it would be great if there were a universal API that could guarantee secure and accurate transfer of data, the reality is much more primitive.
Most data that is being shared between companies these days is contained in CSV (comma-separated values) files. While CSVs are generally easy to create, they’re notoriously difficult to secure.