What is Data Security Posture Management?
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is a process and framework that helps organizations identify, assess, and manage data security risks across multiple environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures.
DSPM protects data across environments, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. As unified frameworks gain traction, DSPM automates workflows to enhance visibility, protection, and compliance. Unlike other solutions, DSPM simplifies security by providing a clear view of data security and overall risk.
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Most DSPM vendors identify risk. CipherTrust DSPM helps reduce it.
Organizations often gain visibility into sensitive data risks but still struggle to act on them. CipherTrust DSPM combines discovery, analytics, and integrated data protection to continuously reduce data exposure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Understand where your sensitive data lives
Gain a clear view of your most critical data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and AI environments. Identify sensitive and regulated data, eliminate blind spots, and govern data risk with confidence.
Focus on risks that matter most
Prioritize exposures that create real business impact. Focus on the risks that matter most to reduce risk faster and prevent escalation.
Accelerate risk remediation
Close the gap between insight and action by enabling faster remediation and eliminating disconnected workflows that prolong exposure.
Detect emerging threats earlier
Identify abnormal data access and usage patterns to detect insider and external threats early and guide investigation before risks escalate.
Connect data risk to business context
Correlate data risk with identity, infrastructure, and workflows to improve prioritization and accelerate response across teams.
Deploy with flexibility and sovereignty
Support SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid models to meet regulatory, operational, and sovereignty requirements while maintaining consistent governance.
Truly understand your data and the risks surrounding it
AI is driving an explosion of sensitive and unstructured data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, hybrid, and AI pipelines—creating massive blind spots and unmanaged risk. CipherTrust DSPM continuously discovers sensitive data, identifies hidden exposure and risky access, and turns visibility into action with prioritized remediation to reduce risk, strengthen compliance, and protect critical data everywhere.
Discover
Identify sensitive data everywhere
Continuously discover, classify, and track sensitive structured and unstructured data to eliminate blind spots and gain real-time visibility across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Identify hidden exposure, prioritize the risks that matter most, accelerate remediation, strengthen compliance, and protect critical data with confidence at enterprise scale.
Analyze
Assess and prioritize exposure risk
Continuously monitor data access and usage to rapidly detect unauthorized activity, insider threats, excessive permissions, and policy violations before they become breaches. Enforce least-privilege access through entitlement management, vulnerability analysis, and misconfiguration assessments to proactively reduce risk, minimize exposure, and strengthen security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Protect
Reduce exposure with integrated data protection
Apply integrated encryption, tokenization, masking, and centralized key management to reduce sensitive data exposure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Go beyond posture management with built-in cryptographic remediation, targeted remediation guidance, and guided resolution to proactively reduce risk and protect critical data at scale.
Control
Govern data without compromising sovereignty
Deploy across SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid environments to maintain consistent control of sensitive data while aligning with operational, regulatory, and data sovereignty requirements. Eliminate one-size-fits-all deployment limitations and enforce centralized visibility, protection, and policy control across the entire data estate.
All the Power of DSPM. None of the Overhead.
Get an early preview of the SaaS-based CipherTrust DSPM and see how quickly teams can move from data visibility to risk reduction without deploying or managing additional infrastructure.
Discover data, prioritize exposure, and connect insights to protection and control through a cloud-delivered experience that accelerates time to value, simplifies operations, and scales as your data grows.
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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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 goes beyond visibility and posture management by combining discovery, risk analytics, and integrated data protection in a single platform. Unlike solutions that only identify problems, CipherTrust DSPM helps organizations reduce risk through targeted remediation, encryption, tokenization, masking, and centralized key management.
CipherTrust DSPM supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, on-premises repositories, databases, file systems, object storage, and AI pipelines. It continuously discovers and classifies both structured and unstructured sensitive data across the enterprise.
CipherTrust DSPM correlates data sensitivity, access exposure, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, AI interactions, and entitlement risks to identify the exposures most likely to create material business impact. This enables organizations to prioritize remediation, reduce attack surface, enforce least privilege, and accelerate response.
CipherTrust DSPM helps organizations maintain continuous visibility into sensitive data, access, and protection status across environments. Flexible SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid deployment options support operational, regulatory, and data sovereignty requirements while enabling centralized governance and audit readiness.
CipherTrust DSPM integrates with SIEM, CSPM, ticketing, identity, HR, and broader security ecosystems to correlate data risk with infrastructure, user, and threat context. These integrations improve prioritization, streamline workflows, and help security teams operationalize remediation faster.
DSPM streamlines data protection through a multi-step process: data discovery and classification, risk assessment, security posture analysis, monitoring and threat detection, and remediation and prevention. It automatically identifies and classifies data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments; evaluates risks such as overexposed data, misconfigured permissions, and shadow data; analyzes security configurations and vulnerabilities; continuously monitors for emerging threats; and helps teams prioritize vulnerabilities and strengthen overall resilience.
DSPM focuses on safeguarding and managing data security across environments, while Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) focuses on the security configuration of cloud infrastructure. CSPM tools monitor infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service environments for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and cloud services risks, whereas DSPM focuses on the data itself—where sensitive data lives, who has access to it, how it is used, and how risk can be reduced across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.