Cloud Data Security Posture Management for Multi-Cloud Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security solutions, such as Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), focus on controlling access to cloud applications but lack deep visibility into how data is stored, accessed, and handled, posing challenges in ensuring data security and compliance in multi-cloud ecosystems.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) system that discovers and classifies sensitive data across multiple cloud services and endpoints, continuously monitors access and usage, evaluates security posture, and enforces security policies to protect data and ensure compliance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional CASB solutions are used to control access to cloud applications, then access control is improved, but visibility into data storage, access, and handling is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from traditional access-control-focused security to a data-centric security model by adding a new dimension of data visibility across the entire data lifecycle. This enables continuous monitoring of data from storage through access to handling, providing comprehensive insights into data security posture without sacrificing access control capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The DSPM system integrates multiple security functions into a unified platform that simultaneously provides access control, data discovery, classification, continuous monitoring, risk evaluation, and compliance reporting. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate security tools and provides holistic security visibility.
2Reliability
If comprehensive data monitoring and security evaluation is implemented, then security posture is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs data discovery, classification, continuous monitoring, and risk evaluation without requiring manual intervention. It self-manages security posture assessment and generates compliance reports autonomously, reducing the operational burden on security teams while maintaining comprehensive security monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The DSPM system consolidates multiple security functions including data discovery, classification, continuous monitoring, risk evaluation, and compliance reporting into a single integrated platform. This merging of functions reduces the number of separate tools needed and simplifies overall system management while providing comprehensive security coverage.
3Reliability
If continuous monitoring and real-time analysis is performed, then threat detection is improved, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors data access patterns, user behaviors, and application interactions, then uses this feedback to dynamically adjust security policies and risk evaluations. This feedback mechanism enables real-time threat detection while optimizing resource consumption by focusing monitoring efforts on high-risk activities and data assets.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system dynamically adapts its behavior based on detected patterns and risk levels. It adjusts monitoring intensity and analysis depth according to the current security posture, concentrating resources on detecting sophisticated threats while reducing consumption during low-risk periods.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods include discovering and classifying any of data discovered by inline cloud inspection, data stored across one or more cloud services, and data stored across one or more endpoints; continuously monitoring access to and usage of classified data, wherein the monitoring is performed in real-time and includes analyzing data access patterns, user behaviors, and application interactions; evaluating a security posture of the classified data by identifying misconfigurations, compliance violations, excessive permissions, and vulnerabilities; and enforcing one or more security policies based on the evaluated security posture.