Launch HN: JumpWire (YC W22) – Easily encrypt customer data in your databases

Hi HN! We are William and Ryan, co-founders of JumpWire ( https://jumpwire.ai ), a security tool that encrypts columns of sensitive data stored in databases, in a way that works automatically with any backend application. We've built startups (Ryan was Dir. of Engineering at N26) and worked in big tech (William was SRE at Spotify), and in every company, saw the same pattern of data spreading out of control. It felt like a dirty secret: hundreds of employees are granted access to customer PII through internal systems. Engineers responsible for securing data end up in a race against a growing list of SaaS or internal tools in use across the organization, and fall back to using bad access management workflows. Trying to secure data by controlling access is a risky proposition on its own — data leaks due to compromised access have become an all-too-regular occurrence, e.g. Uber contractor breach in September as a recent example. Companies that outgrow the access control appr