Alphabet Soup: What Is DSPM

Overview

In the rapidly evolving landscape of complex multicloud environments, safeguarding cloud infrastructure, sensitive data, and applications has become a paramount concern for organizations. With the proliferation of cloud-based applications and modern services, traditional security measures often fall short in addressing the unique challenges posed by ‌multicloud environments.

Moreover, the rise in recent data breaches clearly indicates that data is a main target for bad actors and data security is a top concern of security teams. Getting a clear picture of where data lives and how it is stored, classified, and secured needs to be an essential part of an organization's overall cloud security strategy.

To effectively secure multicloud environments and data residing in these environments, organizations need a comprehensive approach that delivers multiple layers of protection at scale.

This article explores the role of data security posture management (DSPM)and how its role differs from existing cloud security solutions that offer multi-layer security, such as cloud security posture management (CSPM)and SaaS security posture management (SSPM)to secure multicloud environments.