Krishna Ksheerabdhi | VP, Product Marketing
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Krishna Ksheerabdhi | VP, Product Marketing
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Thales has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass in the Data Security Platforms category, earning this top ranking for its products, innovation, and market presence.
We live in a time when organizations face many data security challenges. The meteoric rise of Generative AI (GenAI) enables businesses to process data faster, and in previously unimagined ways, but it also creates a slew of new risks around data privacy, security, and potential leaks. Multi-cloud and hybrid environments promise much greater flexibility, but they make it infinitely harder to manage and secure data consistently across different platforms. Concurrently, complex, evolving, and increasingly stringent data privacy regulations mean entities have to maintain the strongest governance to stay compliant and avoid falling foul of regulators.
Protecting sensitive information has become increasingly difficult. Today’s organizations need flexible, powerful, and scalable solutions to keep their data safe. The KuppingerCole report takes an in-depth look at the evolving data security market, highlighting the solutions that have proved most successful in adapting to today’s shifting cybersecurity challenges.
The report also analyzes the key players in the data security space based on the strength of their products, their approach to innovation, and their market presence.
Following thorough research based on predefined criteria, the KuppingerCole report cites several strengths behind Thales’s selection as the top vendor in this category:
- A comprehensive data security portfolio that addresses all aspects of data security
- Broad coverage of databases and cloud data platforms
- Strong support for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring consistent security policies across these distributed environments
- Advanced threat detection and automated remediation capabilities
- Compliance-centric design, facilitating regulatory adherence for enterprises
Thales’ Data Security Solutions
To help modern businesses address these burgeoning challenges, Thales spent several years expanding its presence and cementing its position as a leader in the data security market. It did this via a strategic series of acquisitions, including SafeNet, Vormetric, Gemalto, and most recently, Imperva, which now operates as a part of the Thales Cybersecurity Products division.
At the core of Thales' vision for a unified data security platform lies its comprehensive capabilities, designed to protect, manage, and govern data across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Thales offers complementary strengths and excels in —proactive data protection and advanced security analytics—ensuring organizations can secure their most critical assets with confidence.
Thales' data security platform supports both structured and unstructured data, spanning relational databases, NoSQL systems, and cloud-native services to seamlessly provide security across disparate data assets and diverse environments.
The CipherTrust Data Security Platform's protection features include discovery, classification, encryption, key management, and tokenization, integrating with numerous third-party tools to extend security into unstructured data and secrets management. Additionally, Thales' Data Security Fabric provides real-time visibility, behavioral analysis, and threat detection, enabling organizations to identify risks, detect anomalies, and maintain compliance with greater precision. Together, these capabilities create a cohesive approach to data security, ensuring both proactive protection and continuous monitoring to safeguard sensitive data wherever it resides.
Adding Data Risk Intelligence to the Mix
However, data protection needs to be proactive and not reactive. Proactive security must be based in actionable intelligence. This is exactly the goal of Data Risk Intelligence (DRI) that was added to Thales data security features to help entities identify and prioritize data risks, such as unauthorized access, shadow data, AI-related risks, and cryptographic weaknesses. DRI does this by pulling together many different risk indicators, such as user permissions, vulnerabilities, encryption status, and suspicious activity, to give a more transparent and encompassing view of potential threats.
The Thales approach spans three main areas: protection, monitoring, and compliance.
- CDSP provides robust encryption for data at rest, in transit, and in use, along with tokenization and dynamic data masking to add another layer of protection for sensitive information. CDSP unifies data discovery, classification, data protection, and centralized management for keys and secrets into a single platform.
- DSF supports comprehensive monitoring with threat detection, and risk management user behavior analytics, anomaly detection, and real-time responses to attacks like SQL injection, data exfiltration, and ransomware, as well as insider threats such as suspicious activity, credential abuse, and more It also comes with risk visibility and automated remediation, which helps reduce the time it takes to respond to incident and avoid compliance issues.
- Both solutions address major regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, and FedRAMP, providing the detailed audit logs and centralized reporting needed to support governance and address audit requirements.
Through its ongoing innovation and key acquisitions, Thales continues to innovate by building a unified, scalable, and compliance-ready data security framework aimed at helping modern organizations protect their sensitive data assets in today’s complex IT environments. This results in fewer resources dedicated to security operations, ubiquitous compliance controls, and significantly reduced risk across complex IT environments
To learn more about the strengths of Thales’s leading data security platform, read the full KuppingerCole report here.