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Data Security Platform

Data Security Platform: Comprehensive Data Protection 

 A Data Security Platform offers more business & security benefits than other IT security platforms and closes gaps left by many data protection platforms.

What is a Data Security Platform?

A Data Security Platform protects sensitive data from various security threats. These might be unauthorized access, theft, loss, or failure to comply with data protection regulations regarding collected data.

Organizations are moving their data to digital formats and storing it in cloud environments. This increases the risk of data breaches and security incidents increases. Research by IBM shows that 45% of all data breaches occur in the cloud.

This article will take a detailed look at what a Data Security Platform is. Then look at how it helps companies protect their data and meet regulatory requirements.

Data Security Platform: what it is and why it matters

Key Features of a Data Security Platform

A data security platform aims to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access, theft, and malicious attacks while ensuring that business continues uninterrupted. The platform secures data in various forms, such as databases, applications, and cloud storage. The platform is also configurable and scalable to accommodate businesses' evolving needs.

  • Data Discovery and Classification: to identify sensitive data across the IT ecosystem and appropriately classify it based on its contents.
  • Encryption validation: to ensure sensitive data is secured both at rest and in transit.
  • Data Access Governance: to define who can access the data and what they can do with it.
  • Data Detection and Response (DDR): Identify potential security threats and respond in real time.
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP): to prevent accidental or intentional loss of sensitive data.
  • Compliance Management: to meet various regulatory requirements and standards.
  • Data Security Posture Management: provides visibility into the data layer and handles identifying sensitive data, using static risk analysis that pinpoints sensitive and business-critical information at risk based on the data context..
  • Audit and Reporting: to provide a complete record of activities related to date security for compliance and analysis purposes.

A Data Security Platform should work with other IT security platforms. These might be firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and identity and access management solutions. This provides a comprehensive and layered approach to data security.

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How a Data Security Platform Solves the Complexity of Data Protection

A Data Security Platform integrates data from various sources to provide a holistic view of the security environment. This unified data helps identify potential threats and risks. It also provides a better understanding of the context in which security events occur.

The platform offers visibility into all aspects of the security environment, including user activity, network traffic, and system logs. This allows businesses to monitor and track security events, identify anomalies, and promptly respond to potential security threats. Data Security Platforms also provide the following:

  • Centralized management of security measures.
  • Ensuring consistency across the organization and minimizing the risk of security breaches.
  • Allowing businesses to better assess and address their security posture.

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A Data Protection Platform Reduces Risk

Cloud compromises cost organizations 3.5% of their revenue in a year. A Data Security Platform reduces risk by providing a comprehensive and integrated solution to security challenges. It integrates data from various sources. This integration helps security teams to identify potential threats and risks and to understand the context in which security events occur. These risks include:

  • Managing Cloud Security: A Data Security Platform can secure sensitive data stored in multi-cloud environments. This includes public clouds and private clouds.
  • Mitigating Data Loss: A Data Security Platform can implement DLP policies and monitor access to data.
  • Stopping Data Theft: As more data is stored in cloud environments and on mobile devices, the risk of data theft increases. A Data Security Platform prevents data theft  with DDR by monitoring for data-related events and responding when an event could lead  to data theft. It also implements other security measures to prevent theft and protect data from falling into the wrong hands.
  • Meeting Compliance Mandates: A Data Security Platform implements security measures that comply with mandates, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
  • Find And Eliminate Active Threats: Detecting security incidents and violations, such as data breaches and unauthorized access, and alerting administrators. This helps security teams respond more quickly to security threats and reduce the impact of security incidents.

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Benefits of Data Protection Platform

The benefits of a data platform far outweigh the costs. Leveraging a data security platform provides significant business benefits and security benefits. Here is a comparison of these benefits:

Business Benefits of Platform Security:

  1. Improved efficiency. A Data Security Platform integrates multiple security measures and technologies into a single, comprehensive solution. This reduces the need to manage multiple-point solutions and improves efficiency.
  2. Enhanced compliance. Organizations must comply with various data protection regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, along with internal data governance. A Data Security Platform helps meet these requirements, which can reduce the risk of financial penalties and legal liability.
  3. Improved reputation. Data security is customer service. The security of customer profiles or unified customer data is more important today than it was ten years ago. Businesses can improve their reputation and build trust with customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
  4. Informed Decisions. A Data Security Platform provides visibility into who is accessing their sensitive data, when, and from where. This information can be used to improve security and make informed business decisions.

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Platform Security Benefits:

  1. Improved data security. A Data Security Platform ensures encryption, access controls, implements monitoring and other security measures. This helps protect their sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft, loss, and other security threats.
  2. Minimized risk. A Data Security Platform implements a comprehensive and layered approach to data security based on the classification of the data and its context. This helps minimize the risk of data breaches and security incidents, which reduces the potential for financial and reputation damage.
  3. Enhanced threat detection. A Data Security Platform monitors access to data and alerts administrators when there are security incidents or violations. Doing this helps organizations detect and respond to security threats more quickly.
  4. Improved business continuity. A Data Security Platform helps maintain business productivity during a data loss incident or other security events. This reduces risk and improves resilience.

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Meet the Dig Data Security Platform

Dig’s Data Security Platform empowers organizations to defend their data in the cloud. It creates in-depth visibility using its data security posture management (DSPM) and data detection and response (DDR) capabilities. With this, Dig identifies and mitigates data risks, gaining the edge on ransomware, shadow data, and data misuse.

The platform classifies regulated data to help meet compliance requirements. It detects and responds to attacks in progress, preventing data exfiltration and theft. Upgrade your security with Dig, a game changer in stopping attacks and minimizing the impact of data breaches.