Redefining Data Security: From Insight to Action

Most organizations don't lack data security tools, they lack cohesion. Teams often layer DSPM solutions for discovery and classification on top of DLP tools for enforcement. On paper, this looks comprehensive. In practice, it creates friction:

• Insights live in dashboards, not workflows
• Policies don't translate cleanly across tools
• Context is lost when data moves from cloud to endpoint
• Security teams see risk but can't act fast enough to stop it

This is the platform problem: technology stitched together, not designed together. Solving it requires more than integrations, it requires a purpose-built platform that combines visibility, control, and action across all states of data.

The urgency for a unified platform has never been higher. Data today is everywhere and constantly in motion. Key trends highlight why organizations need this capability now:

• Gen AI adoption: 62% of organizations are experimenting with AI agents, yet 82% of the top 100 most-used GenAI SaaS applications are medium, high, or critical risk. Even when excluding medium risk, 60% remain high or critical.
• Data perimeter collapse: Data now lives and moves across endpoints, cloud, SaaS, AI platforms, and both personal and corporate devices, making it difficult to monitor and secure.
• High breach exposure: 40% of data breaches involve data spread across multiple environments, including public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Growing market adoption: Gartner predicts that by 2026, over 20% of businesses will prioritize DSPM technologies to discover and secure their known and unknown data repositories.

For decision makers, these pressures make one thing clear: a unified platform that delivers actionability and control across data is no longer optional, it's essential.

From the Endpoint Out: The Cyberhaven Platform Advantage

The real differentiator of the Cyberhaven platform starts at the endpoint. While most DSPM solutions focus on cloud and storage systems, Cyberhaven began with the hardest problem: endpoint DLP. Endpoints are the wild west of data security, where sensitive files are copied, emailed, shared, or moved to unmanaged devices in seconds.

By solving the endpoint challenge first, the platform now has an inherent advantage. This foundation allows Cyberhaven to extend comprehensive visibility and control across cloud, SaaS, and collaboration tools with deep context. It offers not just insight, but the ability to act wherever data resides or moves.

Data Lineage and Real-World Action

Tracking data lineage is central to creating meaningful control. Cyberhaven's combined DSPM and DLP platform captures the journey of every file:

• Where it was created
• How it has moved
• Who has accessed it
• Its current location and risk state

Consider a user creating a document in Google Drive and sharing it via email. Another user downloads it to a personal device. Through the platform, security teams can immediately understand what kind of data it is, where it resides, and why it was created. They can determine whether the download represents risky behavior or normal work activity, and take action in real time if needed.

This level of visibility and control is possible because Cyberhaven merges discovery, classification, and enforcement into a single, seamless experience.

At Rest and In Motion: Unified Protection

Data risk exists in two states:

• At rest: Sensitive data may be misclassified, over-permissioned, or stored in places it doesn't belong.
• In motion: Data is shared, emailed, or moved to unmanaged devices, often without malicious intent.

DSPM provides visibility into data at rest. DLP enforces policy in motion. When combined in a unified platform, organizations gain the ability to proactively manage risk, applying policies consistently and confidently across all data environments.

Compliance and Risk in Harmony

Compliance and risk are no longer separate agendas, but are two sides of the same coin. Understanding who has access to sensitive data, how it's used, and where it travels informs compliance efforts while preventing accidental exposure or misuse reduces risk.

A unified DSPM and DLP platform addresses both simultaneously, streamlining audits, strengthening security posture, and reducing operational overhead.

Building a Mature Data Security Program

The future of data security isn't about adding more point solutions, it's about building a mature program that delivers outcomes.

A unified platform enables organizations to:

• Gain holistic visibility across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS
• Apply consistent, context-aware policies
• Reduce risk without disrupting users
• Operate simply, without stitching together siloed systems

Instead of managing multiple vendors and disparate tools, teams can focus on decisions and outcomes. They can proactively prevent risk rather than react to it.

Moving Data Security Forward

Data has changed, and security must evolve. By combining deep understanding with actionable control, our unified DSPM and DLP platform closes the gap between insight and action. It empowers security teams to not just see their risk, but to manage and mitigate it — confidently, comprehensively, and continuously.

This is the future of data security.

Learn more about the era of data security with our on-demand webinar, Uniting DSPM & DLP to Secure Data in the AI Era.