Product Overview: Spirion Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Spirion’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution is a comprehensive and integrated platform designed to protect sensitive and critical data within an organization’s network from erroneous or malicious loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. Here’s a detailed look at what the product does and its key features.
What Spirion DLP Does
Spirion DLP is not just a single piece of software, but a crucial component of a broader data security and privacy program. It focuses on identifying, classifying, and protecting sensitive data across the entire enterprise infrastructure. This includes detecting and securing various types of data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Intellectual Property (IP), and other confidential information.
Key Features and Functionality
Data Discovery and Classification
- Spirion’s DLP solution begins with robust data discovery, locating all sensitive data across the organization, including in images, databases, email applications, cloud storage, and network devices.
- It performs automatic data classification with a highly accurate data identification engine, categorizing data from not sensitive to highly sensitive.
Continuous Monitoring
- The system continuously monitors the enterprise for new instances of sensitive data in real-time, ensuring that the organization’s data protection remains up-to-date and effective.
Remediation
- Spirion offers various remediation options to reduce the sensitive data footprint. This includes data encryption, securely shredding unneeded information, redacting toxic data, or quarantining files to more secure locations.
Centralized Management
- The platform provides an intuitive central console with a graphical user interface. This console allows users to search, review, and protect sensitive data, manage role-based access control, and view real-time data identification and classification results.
Automated Risk Remediation
- Spirion integrates automated risk remediation through playbooks that define visual workflows for zero-touch classification, remediation, and notification policies. This helps alleviate the burdens on security and compliance teams.
Performance and Scalability
- The solution is designed for high performance and scalability, optimizing bandwidth by keeping scanning close to data sources. It supports massive parallel scans to handle large data stores efficiently.
Data Asset Inventory and Risk Dashboards
- Spirion includes a Data Asset Inventory (DAI) that catalogs data assets, maps their flow, and tracks assets containing sensitive data. It also features the SDV3™ Sensitive Data Risk Dashboard and the SPIglass™ Executive Dashboard, which provide risk scoring and financial metrics to help manage and quantify success.
Custom Reports and Analytics
- The platform offers a visual interface for creating custom reports tailored to user needs without requiring SQL queries or APIs. Additionally, Spirion Enhanced Analytics (SEA) allows users to analyze vast volumes of data using their own BI tools.
Sensitive Data Finder and Watcher
- Spirion includes tools like the Sensitive Data Finder for automated responses to complex data requests and the Sensitive Data Watcher® for monitoring unusual behavior and incident detection using User and Entity Behavioral Analytics (UEBA).
Integrated Approach
Spirion’s DLP solution is part of a holistic approach to data security, integrating with other leading data protection solutions to prevent accidental or intentional data loss incidents and data breaches. This comprehensive strategy ensures that sensitive information is identified and protected while allowing organizations to access the data necessary for regular business operations.