What Is DSPM? | Data Security Posture Management Explained

Hi, I'm Hena.
I'm the product marketing manager here at lightbeam,
and today I'll be talking about what is DSPM
or Data Security Posture Management.
In today's digital first world,
your organization's most valuable asset is data.
But with cloud platforms, SaaS tools,
and hybrid environments growing so fast,
so does your attack office.
Traditional security tools focus on firewalls or logs,
and they don't know what data you have, where it is stored,
or who can access it.
So enter DSPM, data security,
posture Management, data Security.
Posture management is a data centric approach
that gives you continuous visibility
and control over sensitive data across SaaS, cloud,
and on-prem environments.
DSPM solutions offer comprehensive visibility in an
organization's data landscape by doing various things, one
of which are data discovery and classification.
It identifies in a classified sensitive data that is PII,
PHI, and PCI like social security numbers,
credit card numbers, or health
information wherever it lives.
Risk assessment and monitoring is
the second thing that it does.
It detects data exposure risks from unauthorized access
and shadow data to misconfigurations access governance.
Now, DSPM ensures only the right users have access based on
their role, business context,
and relevant compliance regulations.
Fourth thing, automated remediation
and when risks show up,
DSPM can automatically revoke access, redact data,
and remove unauthorized access
or black compliance violations.
You can also stay audit ready for GTPR, hipaa, PCI,
and CCPA with real time compliance checks
and reporting light beam's.
DSPM is identity centric.
It links sensitive data to real people, your customers,
partners, employees, and business context.
So you know who has access to what data, why,
and what risks that creates.