As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and SaaS usage, sensitive data sprawl has quietly become one of the most consequential security challenges facing organizations today. Critical data—PII, PHI, financial records, intellectual property—no longer lives neatly inside a handful of databases or well-defined applications. This challenge has driven the rise of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) as a foundational control layer for modern data security programs. DSPM focuses on continuously discovering, classifying, and contextualizing sensitive data across cloud and SaaS environments. However, data risk is rarely driven by data alone—it is driven by identity and access. Over-privileged users, service accounts, APIs, and automated workloads often have far broader access to sensitive data than intended, turning routine identity misconfigurations into breach-scale events. SANS had the opportunity to review the Lightbeam platform, which brings identity and data security concepts together in a unified solution. In this webinar, we’ll cover how Lightbeam:
- Helps to discover and secure data
- Provides access governance through access review and file policies
- Helps organizations classify data and report on data privacy
- Enhances DR/BCP through data retention and minimization controls and reporting
- Aids in incident response through breach and insider threat policies
Join SANS and Lightbeam to walk through the platform, discuss advanced data and identity security concepts and controls, and look ahead to what’s coming in complex hybrid environments to better identify and protect our data.
