✨ What’s New @LB ✨

Spring Edition – April 2025

Spring is here—and our product has exciting updates and major new capabilities across data security posture management (DSPM), privacy, and data access governance (DAG). The R&D team has been hard at work this winter building new functionality that will help customers streamline their data security operations, automatically remove inappropriate access to sensitive data, and provide powerful new features for data retention and minimization.

Let’s dive into what’s new 🌷👇

🎯 Risk Scores: Quantify What Matters, Prioritize What’s Critical

Ever feel like your data environment is a hot mess and you just want someone to walk you through cleaning it, step by step, one disaster at a time? No judgment, we’ve all been there.

Enter: Risk Scores.

LightBeam now automatically analyzes the presence and volume of sensitive data elements across your assets to generate a unified risk score. It’s your single source of truth to:
✅ Identify what matters most
✅ Benchmark security posture
✅ Take focused, high-impact action

No more manual audits or fragmented dashboards—just actionable insight.
Pro Tip: Use these scores to trigger policies and automate remediation based on risk level.

👉 Curious what your current data risk looks like? Book a complimentary risk assessment.

🔐 Autonomously Remove Access to Risky Files with Policy Automation

Wondering if you have highly sensitive files openly accessible to the internet? Or if one got exposed to the world without your knowledge?

The LightBeam policy engine now supports full automation of access revocation workflows. When a policy condition is met—such as Open or excessive access, access can be revoked automatically, with audit logging and notifications. This reduces manual intervention and ensures consistent enforcement of access governance.

🔍 LightBeam Lens: Lightning-Fast Data Insights

LightBeam Lens enables organizations to analyze data quickly from multiple perspectives including file creation and modification dates, file size, location/folder paths, and data types. 

With Lens, customers can analyze risks hiding within their file repositories, and implement data retention/archival policies to reduce their risk radius. Lens helps you surface hotspots, track trends, and prioritize actions with precision, driving faster time-to-value and stronger data governance.

LightBeam Lens—a powerful way to slice and dice file metadata and quickly uncover risk hotspots.

📂 File-Type-Based Policy Enforcement

.pdf, .tmp, .py, .jpg—file types are basically their own language.
Now you can speak it fluently.

LightBeam now supports policies tailored to file types.
✅ Block source code from being shared
✅ Monitor temp and video files eating up storage
✅ Apply unique retention rules by format

Save space, reduce risk, and keep things tidy without lifting a finger.

👥 Custom Data Identity Graphs

While LightBeam has long had the ability to connect to specific identity repositories to build the data identity graph automatically, Custom Data Identity Graphs now also let you import identities (customers, employees, contractors) via CSV and to quickly seed identity information for entities—across every connected app—with accuracy.

From there, you can:

– Fulfill data subject requests with ease

– Enforce identity-centric policies

– Reduce breach risk across your ecosystem

🧤 Customized Redaction

Now, you can apply fine-grained redaction styles to PDFs and images.

Whether it’s selective masking, custom rules, or role-based visibility—this feature gives you surgical control. Redacted files can be downloaded, shared securely, and aligned to your privacy policies.

Elegant protection that doesn’t disrupt the flow of business.

🌍 Location-Based Cookie Consent Banners

One size doesn’t fit all—especially when it comes to compliance.

With LightBeam’s new geo-aware cookie banners, you can:
🇪🇺 Show GDPR-compliant banners to EU visitors
🇺🇸 Simplify banners for U.S. users

This smart banner customization ensures global compliance without creating friction for users or your ops team.

☀️ And That’s Not All…

Keep an eye out for deep dives this month on:

– Access Governance for All Files

– Policy Enforcement for SMB Shares

– Salesforce Marketing Cloud Integration

– Direct Object Viewer Links

– Attribute-Level Navigation

– Native Consent for PostgreSQL

– Self-Service DSR Management for DPOs

Let’s just say the R&D team came out of hibernation ready to ship.

Looking to boost your org’s data security posture with a platform that’s built around identity, automation, and context?

📧 Reach us at [email protected]
🌐 Or visit: www.lightbeam.ai