DTG-DV19 · Data Visibility · 4 min

Discovery at Machine Speed. Governance at Human Speed. The Gap Is the Risk

A modern data discovery platform can scan a petabyte-scale cloud environment in hours. It can identify thousands of sensitive data instances, classify them by type, assig…

DTG-DV11 · Data Visibility · 4 min

Classification Without Consequence Is Just Labeling

Data classification programs produce labels. Confidential. Restricted. Internal. Public. The labels are applied with effort and maintained with care.

DTG-DV08 · Data Visibility · 4 min

Visibility at the System Level and Blindness at the Data Level

Most security and governance programs have reasonably good visibility at the system level: the asset inventory captures the servers, the applications, the cloud resources…

DTG-DV07 · Data Visibility · 4 min

The Data Map and the Data Reality: How Wide Is the Gap in Your Organization?

Every organization with a privacy program has a data map of some kind. A record of processing activities. A data inventory. A system catalog with data categories.

DTG-334 · Data Visibility · 10 min

Discovery Coverage Looks Complete. Until You Include APIs

Your data discovery program scans databases, file systems, and data stores. APIs are none of these things. They are channels through which sensitive data moves continuous…

DTG-329 · Data Visibility · 11 min

Sensitive Data Moves Faster Than It Can Be Discovered

Discovery tools scan what exists at the moment of the scan. Sensitive data does not wait for the scanner. By the time your classification report is generated, the data it…

DTG-326 · Data Visibility · 10 min

DSPM Reveals Risk. It Does Not Reduce It

A DSPM deployment that produces a comprehensive risk dashboard without triggering a remediation workflow has not improved the organization's security posture.

DTG-322 · Data Visibility · 10 min

Sensitive Data Is Identified. It Is Not Controlled

Data classification produces labels. Labels are not controls. The gap between identifying sensitive data and governing it effectively is wider than most discovery program…

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