What is data protection and remediation in DSPM?
In a DSPM platform, protection and remediation means acting on discovered risk: applying encryption, tokenization, masking, access changes or policy fixes to the specific sensitive data that is exposed. CipherTrust DSPM connects each finding to the right control, so teams reduce exposure instead of only reporting it.
Minimize Sensitive Data Exposure at Scale and Speed
Close the gap between finding risks and reducing them across complex data environments.
Easy Prioritization
Move from awareness to action with greater speed and confidence. Avoid delays caused by manual handoffs, disconnected tools, or uncertainty about which protection step should come next.
Minimize Exposure
Reduce the amount of business-critical data left unnecessarily exposed across cloud, SaaS, AI, and hybrid environments. Focus protection efforts where they can most effectively safeguard the business.
Simplify Remediation
Take a more direct path from risk insights to corrective action. Reduce operational friction by coordinating remediation efforts through security, data, and compliance teams through a shared data-risk view.
Strengthen Control
Deliver assurance that sensitive data is protected according to business, regulatory, and sovereignty requirements. Demonstrate control over high-value and regulated data.
Reduce the Burden of Risk
Spend less time managing fragmented remediation workflows and more time reducing exposure that impacts the bottom line. Improve efficiency across security operations, compliance, and data governance programs.
Control Your Own Keys
Centrally control the keys that make data accessible within your domain and away from the data itself, regardless if data is located in the cloud, SaaS, or on-premises. Prove control of encrypted data access within the region you operate.
Protect What Matters Most
CipherTrust DSPM reduces sensitive data exposure by connecting data-risk insights to protection and remediation actions. Teams can better understand where sensitive data needs stronger control and take steps to protect it across cloud, SaaS, AI and hybrid environments.
Data Protection and Remediation Capabilities
Connect DSPM findings to protection workflows that help teams apply the right control to the right data. Support remediation paths that align sensitive data risk with protection actions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Use encryption and centralized key management to help protect sensitive data and maintain control over access to protected information. Support customer-controlled key strategies, compliance needs, and sovereignty requirements.
Apply tokenization and masking to reduce exposure of sensitive data used in business applications, analytics, testing, and AI workflows. Limit unnecessary access to clear-text data while supporting operational use cases.
Provide remediation guidance based on data sensitivity, exposure, access, and other context. Determine whether to adjust access, apply protection, change policy, validate controls, or escalate for further action.
Identify where data is protected and where protection gaps may remain. Validate coverage across encryption, masking, tokenization, access controls, policy enforcement, and key management practices.
Finding data risk is only the first step to data protection. Organizations need to reduce exposure before it is exploited and the business is negatively impacted. CipherTrust DSPM turns posture intelligence into protection decisions, giving security and compliance teams a clearer path to remediate sensitive data risk and prove progress.
Why Integrated Protection Matters
Reducing data risk requires more than visibility. It requires action, protection, and control.
47 %
of sensitive cloud data is encrypted on average. (Thales 2026 Data Threat Report)
57 %
of organizations use five or more encryption key managers. (Thales 2025 Cloud Security Study)
77 %
of organizations run five or more data
Security that integrates with your technology ecosystem
With one of the industry’s largest cyber security technology ecosystems, Thales solutions integrate with the most widely used technologies to protect and secure access to your mission-critical applications and data.
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Reduce Sensitive Data Exposure
Learn how CipherTrust DSPM connects data-risk insights to action and governance across cloud, SaaS, AI, and hybrid environments.
We think Thales DSPM is a strong option for organizations that need a single platform covering discovery, classification, and native data protection without stitching together multiple vendors. The case is particularly strong for regulated industries and organizations with on-premise or hybrid infrastructure, where cloud-native DSPM tools often fall short. If your security requirements include full encryption key ownership, tokenization, and data masking enforced at the data layer across cloud and on-premise environments, Thales is well worth the investment.”
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CipherTrust DSPM identifies which sensitive data is most exposed and where protection is needed. It connects those insights to controls such as encryption, tokenization, masking, policy enforcement, and key management.
Integrated remediation reduces the delay between finding data risk and taking action. It gives teams clearer guidance on how to reduce exposure, strengthen control, and address high-risk sensitive data more efficiently.
CipherTrust DSPM identifies protection gaps, validates control coverage, and maintains evidence that sensitive data is governed and protected according to compliance, audit, and sovereignty requirements.
AI and analytics workflows can increase sensitive data exposure. CipherTrust DSPM helps identify where data used by AI needs stronger protection, access control, or policy enforcement.
By connecting data-risk insight to protection and remediation guidance, CipherTrust DSPM reduces manual investigation, improves coordination, and focuses efforts on the actions most likely to lower exposure.
Data remediation is the process of fixing sensitive data risk after it is discovered: encrypting, tokenizing or masking exposed data, removing excessive access, relocating or deleting unmanaged copies, and updating policy. CipherTrust DSPM guides the remediation path for each finding and validates that protection is in place.