Lightbeam Basics: Understanding Data Attributes for Risk & Protection
In this Lightbeam Basics episode, learn how Data Attributes help you discover PII, spot risks, and enforce policy-driven protection.
Lightbeam Basics: Understanding Data Attributes for Risk & Protection
Where does your sensitive data really live?
In this episode of Lightbeam Basics, see how Data Attributes give you clear visibility into:
How personal and sensitive information (like PII) is distributed across systems
Which attributes are most at risk and how to protect them with policy-driven controls
Lightbeam helps you simplify data security with context-aware insights and proactive protection.
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Transcript
Let's take a look at attributes in Lightbeam.
From the dashboard, we see the live data discovery screen.
This is the attribute screen.
A data element like name, address,
phone number is called an attribute In Lightbeam.
This screen shows the total amount of space
or storage required for all the data that was discovered.
Under attributes. This screen shows the total number
of attributes found.
These can be viewed from a daily or cumulative perspective.
If we go into the detail screen, we see the total list
of attributes being tracked by lightbeam.
Lightbeam tracks natively over 230 different
attributes from around the world.
Many government identifiers are included.
Subsets can be in created for particular processing.
Let's say employee onboarding is a
process you want to look at.
You can create an attribute set
that includes just those attributes for that process,
we go into the cards for a particular attribute.
We see more information, Canadian driver's license.
Here we see it. The sensitivity level has been set to high.
It's included in three different attribute sets,
and 7,500 instances have been found.
It's found across four different data sources.
If we'd like to go in one more level onto the card,
see the Canadian driver's license detail card.
In addition to the other information found, we see
how it was distributed across the different data sources.
Here we see the Google Drive includes the vast majority
of Canadian driver's licenses.
We also can see what subsets are included.
If we wanna go into one more detail level,
we can see the particular objects
that were found in the particular data sets
that show Canadian driver's license.
Here we see the actual identifier has been
masked for protection.
This can be set as a default.
If we want to see the particular identifier,
we can unmask it and see the value.
We also see the DOC classification for
that particular attribute.
Attributes are the key part of Lightbeam.
The key reason we are tracking sensitive data.
This is a view into attributes.
From the dashboard, we see the live data discovery screen.
This is the attribute screen.
A data element like name, address,
phone number is called an attribute In Lightbeam.
This screen shows the total amount of space
or storage required for all the data that was discovered.
Under attributes. This screen shows the total number
of attributes found.
These can be viewed from a daily or cumulative perspective.
If we go into the detail screen, we see the total list
of attributes being tracked by lightbeam.
Lightbeam tracks natively over 230 different
attributes from around the world.
Many government identifiers are included.
Subsets can be in created for particular processing.
Let's say employee onboarding is a
process you want to look at.
You can create an attribute set
that includes just those attributes for that process,
we go into the cards for a particular attribute.
We see more information, Canadian driver's license.
Here we see it. The sensitivity level has been set to high.
It's included in three different attribute sets,
and 7,500 instances have been found.
It's found across four different data sources.
If we'd like to go in one more level onto the card,
see the Canadian driver's license detail card.
In addition to the other information found, we see
how it was distributed across the different data sources.
Here we see the Google Drive includes the vast majority
of Canadian driver's licenses.
We also can see what subsets are included.
If we wanna go into one more detail level,
we can see the particular objects
that were found in the particular data sets
that show Canadian driver's license.
Here we see the actual identifier has been
masked for protection.
This can be set as a default.
If we want to see the particular identifier,
we can unmask it and see the value.
We also see the DOC classification for
that particular attribute.
Attributes are the key part of Lightbeam.
The key reason we are tracking sensitive data.
This is a view into attributes.
