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Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

Discover, assess, and protect sensitive data anywhere, across the cloud and on-prem.
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Instant insights for continuous data security

As data environments grow more complex and cyber threats evolve, the need for unified data security across cloud and on-prem systems has never been greater. Where is all your data? What is the nature of that data? Who has access to it? How risky is our data usage?

 

Netskope One DSPM provides continuous, real-time visibility into your data’s security posture. The DSPM Score and risk indicators highlight critical risks in data stores, user access, and interactions while continuously scanning for risky behaviors, sensitive data violations, and potentially harmful queries.

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DSPM security across the full data lifecycle

Netskope’s DSPM solution uncovers your entire data landscape, providing precise classification and prioritization for sensitive PII, proprietary, or regulatory data (GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA). By integrating with Netskope’s DLP, CASB and SASE capabilities, Netskope One DSPM empowers security teams to:

  • Gain visibility: Discover and classify data across all environments, including shadow data stores, ensuring compliance with data sovereignty laws.
  • Control access: Manage permissions, monitor access, and enforce strict controls so sensitive data remains accessible only to authorized users.
  • Monitor usage: Secure every data interaction by setting alerts, enforcing governance standards, and ensuring end-to-end encryption.
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Netskope One DSPM features and benefits

Visibility

Comprehensive visibility

Full view of structured and unstructured data across all environments for proactive governance.

Risk management

Proactive risk management

Identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities to strengthen security posture.

Meets industry and internal compliance standards

Automated compliance

Align policies with standards like GDPR and HIPAA, simplifying audits and compliance.

Increased security posture and protection of data

Reduced attack surface

Limit risk by controlling data access and managing interactions across your infrastructure.

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Real-time risk indicators

DSPM Score and risk indicators provide instant insights into your data security posture, highlighting critical risks across data stores, user access, and interactions.

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Unified dashboard

A single console view for sensitive data across environments allows for quick identification and resolution of security issues, supporting efficient governance.

Transparency

Automated classification and tagging

Continuously scans and categorizes data, making managing and controlling sensitive information easier.

Visibility and control enabling hybrid work

Contextualized data analysis

Advanced insights on data access patterns, usage anomalies, and exfiltration risks, enabling security teams to respond swiftly.

Simplicity

Seamless integration with Netskope One SSE

Netskope One DSPM integrates with DLP, CASB, and other Netskope One SSE components, ensuring consistent, end-to-end data protection across your enterprise.

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Discover and classify sensitive data

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Efficiently managing sensitive data with automated discovery and classification
Discover sensitive data automatically across various data stores, providing a complete view of your data landscape. With accurate identification and classification, Netskope One DSPM ensures sensitive data is appropriately protected, streamlining compliance with privacy regulations and internal governance policies.

Policy validation and enforcement

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Mitigate risk with dynamic policy control and enforcement
Continuously monitor and enforce data protection policies, validating security controls against predefined frameworks. With granular policy enforcement, Netskope One DSPM helps prevent security posture drift and maintains alignment with industry best practices and regulatory standards.

Data access governance (DAG)

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Enhancing visibility, understanding risk, and ensuring compliance
Gain deep visibility into data access, enabling real-time permissions adjustment as data moves across cloud environments. Netskope One DSPM minimizes risks from over-privileged access and unauthorized data exposure, helping organizations meet compliance requirements like GDPR and CCPA.

Data usage risk analysis

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Fostering responsible innovation with data usage insights
Analyze data interactions to identify abnormal or risky activities. By understanding the context of data usage, Netskope One DSPM helps organizations manage risks and protect innovation, ensuring that security is upheld without hindering business growth.

Data privacy and compliance

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Streamlining compliance with insights
Automate compliance monitoring and receive proactive alerts for policy violations and data residency issues. Netskope One DSPM ensures organizations maintain high standards for data privacy, supporting adherence to regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.

Efficiently managing sensitive data with automated discovery and classification
Discover sensitive data automatically across various data stores, providing a complete view of your data landscape. With accurate identification and classification, Netskope One DSPM ensures sensitive data is appropriately protected, streamlining compliance with privacy regulations and internal governance policies.

Mitigate risk with dynamic policy control and enforcement
Continuously monitor and enforce data protection policies, validating security controls against predefined frameworks. With granular policy enforcement, Netskope One DSPM helps prevent security posture drift and maintains alignment with industry best practices and regulatory standards.

Enhancing visibility, understanding risk, and ensuring compliance
Gain deep visibility into data access, enabling real-time permissions adjustment as data moves across cloud environments. Netskope One DSPM minimizes risks from over-privileged access and unauthorized data exposure, helping organizations meet compliance requirements like GDPR and CCPA.

Fostering responsible innovation with data usage insights
Analyze data interactions to identify abnormal or risky activities. By understanding the context of data usage, Netskope One DSPM helps organizations manage risks and protect innovation, ensuring that security is upheld without hindering business growth.

Streamlining compliance with insights
Automate compliance monitoring and receive proactive alerts for policy violations and data residency issues. Netskope One DSPM ensures organizations maintain high standards for data privacy, supporting adherence to regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.

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transformation challenges with one platform

Netskope One SSE is built on the Netskope One platform that provides unrivaled visibility and real-time data and threat protection when accessing cloud services, websites, and private apps from anywhere, on any device.

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Cloud Exchange for Technology Integrations

Cloud Exchange consumes valuable Netskope telemetry, as well as external threat intelligence and risk scores, enabling improved policy implementation, automated service ticket creation, and exportation of log events from the Netskope One platform.

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Accelerate Intelligence with Automated & Unified Data Security

You want your data security to be accurate, reliable, thorough, faster today than it was yesterday, and faster tomorrow than it was today. If this isn’t your experience, it’s time to use automated and unified DSPM, DLP, and CASB from Netskope.

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FAQs

How can an organization find and secure its sensitive data in the cloud?

Netskope One DSPM continuously scans infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) locations to identify sensitive data at rest. It provides a clear map of where your most important data is stored across your cloud environment.

Can security tools identify data that is overshared in cloud buckets?

Yes. Netskope One DSPM analyzes permissions and access logs to find data that is exposed to the public cloud. This helps reduce your risk by identifying data that is shared too widely.

How does DSPM help with meeting data privacy regulations?

Netskope One DSPM automatically classifies data based on standards like GDPR and HIPAA toward ensuring compliance. It helps quickly identify compliance gaps and generate reports for external audits.

Does a data posture solution work across multiple cloud providers?

Yes. Netskope One DSPM provides a unified view of data posture across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to ensure you can maintain consistent data security everywhere your organization operates.

Can DSPM find sensitive data hidden in unmanaged cloud apps?

By integrating with cloud access security broker(CASB), Netskope One DSPM can discover sensitive data in shadow IT and shadow AI applications. It allows your organization to bring that data back under official corporate control.

Does DSPM discover and classify data both in the cloud and on premises?

Yes. Netskope One DSPM automates the discovery and classification of your data across all IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-premises locations where your organization’s data resides, including unmanaged locations that your CASB policies may not detect.
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