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1/30/2026
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Effortless Data Security: From Discovery to Enforcement on a Single Platform
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For years, data security has been divided into artificial categories. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) focused on enforcement. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) focused on discovery. Insider risk management lived somewhere adjacent. And now, AI security has arrived as yet another bolt-on.
This fragmentation wasn't driven by how data actually behaves — it was driven by vendors.
In reality, data doesn't care which tool owns it. It moves fluidly across endpoints, SaaS apps, cloud infrastructure, AI tools, and users. And security teams are left trying to stitch together context across disconnected systems, dashboards, and teams. The result is poor visibility, slower response, and decisions made without confidence.
If there's one truth modern security teams agree on, it's this: you can't secure what you can't see — and you can't enforce what you don't understand.
From Discoverability to Enforcement: The Full Data Security Journey
Many DSPM products entered the market by solving a real and urgent problem: organizations had no idea where their sensitive data actually lived. Discovery was the starting point, but it quickly exposed a second problem. Visibility without enforcement doesn't reduce risk.
Discovering sensitive data at rest is only valuable if security teams can act on it. That's where many DSPM tools struggle. They stop at posture insights, leaving enforcement to separate DLP tools that lack the same context.
Cyberhaven approached this problem from the opposite direction.
With long-standing expertise in DLP and insider risk, Cyberhaven already understood how data is misused, exfiltrated, and put at risk in real environments. Adding DSPM capabilities wasn't about bolting on discovery, it was about extending enforcement with deep, accurate visibility.
The result is an integrated platform that covers the entire data security journey:
- Discover sensitive data at rest across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and on-prem
- Understand how that data moves, who uses it, and why
- Transition seamlessly into enforcement for insider risk, data exfiltration, and AI misuse
Discovery and enforcement are no longer separate phases — they're part of a single, continuous workflow.
Eliminating the False Divide Between DLP and DSPM
The separation between DLP and DSPM has never made sense operationally. Data security teams don't think in terms of categories — they think in terms of risk.
They need to answer questions like:
- Where is our most sensitive data right now?
- Who is accessing it?
- How is it being used — including in AI tools?
- Is this behavior risky, or expected?
- What should we do next?
Cyberhaven's integrated DSPM and DLP platform provides a holistic view of data context, movement, and usage, regardless of where the data lives. Endpoints, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and on-prem environments are all part of the same picture.
Instead of stitching together partial insights from multiple tools, analysts see data risk across the full lifecycle — data at rest, in motion, in use, and on endpoints — in one place.
Designed for Insights, Not Information Overload
One of the biggest failures of legacy security tools is mistaking volume for value. More alerts. More dashboards. More raw data. Less clarity.
Cyberhaven DSPM was built on a different principle: surface insights, not just data points.
That philosophy starts with data lineage, showing not just where data is, but where it came from and how it got there. It extends into AI classification and categorization, helping teams better understand data – which can be applied to how that data is used in any variety of workflows, including AI workflows.
The redesigned user experience focuses on helping analysts answer the most important question quickly: why is this a problem — or why isn't it?
Rather than forcing teams to manually correlate classification, location, and user behavior across tools, the platform brings those signals together. Future releases will provide a bird's-eye view that clearly illustrates how data sensitivity, location, and identity intersect, dramatically reducing investigation time.
The outcome isn't just a better UI. It's less time spent inside tools, fewer tools overall, and faster, more confident decisions.
One Platform, One Source of Truth
Fragmented tools create fragmented teams. Over time, this leads to "tribal knowledge," where critical context lives in individuals' heads rather than in systems.
Cyberhaven's platform is designed to support a future where organizations can manage end-to-end data security with a single team, working from a single source of truth. Even for organizations that maintain separate teams in the short term, the value is immediate: everyone sees the same data, the same risk signals, and the same context.
Early customers consistently point to the impact of a single pane of glass and a coherent ecosystem. Onboarding is simpler. Collaboration improves. And security teams spend less time translating between tools and more time reducing risk.
Effortless Security, Real Outcomes
Cyberhaven Data Security Posture Management delivers comprehensive visibility without the operational friction that usually comes with it. It's easy to deploy, accurate by design, and deep enough to support confident enforcement.
By unifying DSPM and DLP into a single platform, Cyberhaven enables security teams to move faster, see more clearly, and protect sensitive data — including AI-driven data flows — with less effort.
This isn't just a new product. It's a new way to think about data security: one platform, one view, and one continuous path from insight to action.