Data Risk Intelligence vs. Data Security

The term “visibility” is not new to corporate, cybersecurity and technology vocabularies. In fact, it’s been so hyped and stretched to fit multiple definitions and applications that its meaning has become less clear (ironically) the more it has been circulated.

To clarify, in the field of online security, “visibility” deals with data, and its goal is to understand what data exists, where it is, who has access to it, and how to protect it. Yet, the answers to these questions often remain elusive to businesses when trying to better understand the true state and scope of their data. Without specific vendors or specialists assigned to data management and education within an organization, it can feel impossible for a company to know where to start when it comes to visualizing, protecting, purging, and optimizing their data.

Why should we care? We need to understand what is visible to us so we can make better informed decisions about what we need to protect or purge.

Taking this into account, let’s look at NVISIONx’s Nx Data Risk Intelligence Platform compared to that of other security platforms out there.?

The Nx Data Risk Intelligence Platform thoughtfully created by us provides the industry’s most complete coverage across the enterprise specifically for identifying, classifying and protecting all enterprise data that matters. The Nx platform has broad and deep integration for more than 400 applications and data stores, including structured databases in your datacenter or in the cloud.

Existing platforms, one in particular that comes to mind, offers “visibility” into approximately 20 unstructured data stores and offers a relevant set of access provisioning controls with very basic analytic capabilities. This calls to question, is being limited to unstructured data for only a handful of key enterprise applications and data repositories enough? Most enterprises have data stored across hundreds of applications. This makes you wonder, “what’s happening to other business critical data that I can’t see with this solution?”

Privacy Data is Important but So is Other Business Data

There’s no question privacy data must be protected and controlled in compliance with regulatory mandates. These are (PI, PII, and PHI), PCI and SOX. But this may only account for a small portion of a company’s overall data set. Data recovery tools such as the aforementioned competitor’s solution only queries and finds well-defined data, such as that which is privacy-oriented in nature.

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The problem with this is there is a lot of other data that might still pose a risk to a company’s competitive advantage, operational reliance or brand credibility, for example, and yet may be unknown. This important data could easily be lost or stolen. So, what you don’t know could well put your company at greater risk than even having a compliance violation.

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That’s why our Nx Data Risk Intelligence Platform conducts fast and efficient inventory scans to reliably identify everything that is stored within each application or data store. It also uses several analytical models ranging from rules-based through to ML and AI to systematically dissect every file and database table to find, log and classify unique attributes that indicate sensitivity and could pose business risk if mishandled. This is a different approach to enterprise data protection because it ensures everything is identified and classified and what needs to be protected is indeed actually safe. Truly complex data such as intellectual property, design files, research data, business strategies, competitive intelligence, board communications and merger and acquisition materials are protected and can enable you to quickly make sense of it all.

If You Don’t Understand Your Data Security You Can’t Control It

Pictures and visuals help tell a great story. That is why we designed our platform specifically to have a rich and vibrant set of graphics, customizable dashboards with workflow automation and notification capabilities that are business-friendly, intuitive and highly interactive with drill-down features for any visual object. This is in contrast to competitive platforms’ tabular, technology-centric dashboards and reporting mechanisms that make it difficult to recognize trends, groupings, and other relationships between different types of data.

As a result, competitive first-generation tools continue to keep customers in the dark.?These “visibility” tools for enterprise data protection and security barely scratch the surface of what is possible and, quite frankly, don’t truly enable an organization to realize the power of its data: to meaningfully protect its IP and the privacy-oriented data of its customers and its stores and to streamline costs and efficiencies. It takes time to take enterprise data visibility and security to a new level, to change the conversation. For how we compare to legacy competition, read more here.