DSPM Buyer's Guide
How to evaluate solutions for accuracy, identity context, and real remediation
About the Buyer's Guide
DSPM vendors love to talk about “visibility.” This Buyer’s Guide shows you how to prove it. In plain terms: how to evaluate DSPM for high-precision discovery, identity and access context, and remediation that actually reduces risk across SaaS, cloud, and hybrid environments, including AI-assisted workflows.
The 5 capabilities buyers should prioritize
Breadth of discovery, classification accuracy, identity context, access governance, and automated remediation.
Where most tools fall short
SaaS-only, metadata-only scanning, noisy findings, and “dashboard-only” risk.
A simple evaluation framework
Accuracy + identity context + real remediation, plus the supporting dimensions that make it stick
A vendor accountability checklist
Coverage, precision, identity correlation, access visibility, automation, AI guardrails, deployment options, integrations, and compliance outputs.
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99 %
Data discovery accuracy
40 %
Reduction in data security TCO
“Lightbeam can cover 90% of processes we were doing with four different tools… Productivity dramatically improved and our team’s time can be used for more mission critical responsibilities and less manual work.”
