Our DSPM Approach

At Symmetry Systems, We Look at Data Differently

To protect data, you must fully understand it—and not just from the outside. When breaches happen, identifying which data objects were breached is exceedingly difficult and leads to expensive, worst-case breach incident response.

We knew it was possible to get complete data observability ahead of a breach—to prevent them in the first place or make response and recovery easier. That’s why our research led us to a better way to approach data security.

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Secure Data From the Inside-Out

Our focus has been on securing organizations from the data out; and our deployment approach is within our customer’s cloud workloads or on premise—so data never leaves their environment.

Reduce Complexity

This unique approach ultimately reduces the complexity of yet another vendor with external access to your environment. Since then, ‌customer demand and hype around DSPM has grown exponentially.

Deliver Observability

Point-in-time assessments or configuration change logs provide a false sense of security.

Only by visualizing and tracking changes in data permissions, and data usage, through time can you get a true picture of your data security posture management.

While running the Spark Lab at UT-Austin, Symmetry Systems’ co-founders identified the need to provide unified visibility into data objects across all data stores, answering data security and compliance questions that traditional tools cannot. DataGuard’s principles for DSPM grew from the pursuit of the solution.

Be Data Centric

Unlike traditional or legacy tools that focus on securing just the systems and networks on which the data is stored or transmitted, DataGuard DSPM takes a data-centric focus—regardless of the cloud or data store environment—providing a full and holistic view across cloud service providers.

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Adopt a Zero-Trust Approach

Applications and service roles remain fundamentally over-privileged since they have to access multiple stores to get work done. As a result, a compromised identity or application has a large blast-radius regarding data. DataGuard DSPM enables enterprises to tighten down data access to least-privilege levels, and keep them there—fulfilling one of the key tenets of Zero Trust.

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Protect Data Where it Exists

To achieve holistic observability, many solutions remove metadata or even data itself from the environment. This can actually put data at risk. Our approach is to use agentless scanning and assess data within the cloud workloads, so no data ever leaves the environment.

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Treat Data Like Family

Data is the lifeblood of many organizations, but it is either dealt with as an afterthought of organizational security or like it is something to be feared. We approach data security with the view that organizations should respect data and have a common understanding of it. They should be intentional about it—constraining it with controls, while allowing it to grow. And that they should be able to let data go when it is no longer needed.

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Symmetry Systems is a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor

In 2022, Gartner® identified  Symmetry Systems as a Cool Vendor™ in the emerging Data Security Posture Management space.1

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Critical DSPM Components

Data Mapping

Data Lineage

Data Risk Assessments

Exposure Management

Data Observability

Why is DSPM Critical?

Our DSPM Approach Enhances Data Operations and Security

Organizations adopt DSPM because they understand the importance of protecting expanding data stores in a multitude of environments, with an endless number of users, devices, and identities, against a backdrop of increasing governance and compliance concerns.

Data Inventory and Data Flow Mapping
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Investigation & Detection
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Zero-Trust
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Compliance and Governance
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Digital Transformation
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Talk Data to Us

At Symmetry Systems, we make answering your burning data security questions our sole focus. Contact us today to learn more about DSPM and how to take the first step toward your data security posture maturity.

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1 Gartner, Inc. “Hype Cycle for Data Security, 2022,” by Brian Lowans. Aug. 4, 2022.

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Data Security — Secure and Accelerate Advanced Use Cases, By Joerg Fritsch, Andrew Bales, Ravisha Chugh, Brian Lowans, Mark Horvath, 19 April 2022

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