Power Data Breach Detection and Response Across All Data Sources

Preventing data breaches can be as tense as watching the final seconds of a tightly contested basketball game: you know a player will take a shot, but you’re not sure when or where it will come from – or, most importantly, if it will go in.

Your company’s data is in – if the multitude of surveys are accurate – hundreds of cloud and web apps, strewn across managed and unmanaged devices, and is being accessed from just about anywhere people work these days. 
 

No wonder every day can feel a little like March Madness. 

Because of all this, there has never been more significance placed on effective data breach detection and response. Across all data sources, from on-premises to cloud and web, as well as email and endpoint, organizations must be able to continuously detect and monitor their sensitive data, as well as respond to threats.

Here’s how the industry leaders are approaching it.

What is Data Breach Detection and Response?

Data breach detection and response involves identifying unauthorized access to sensitive data and swiftly mitigating the impact through containment, investigation and remediation.

Detection is achieved through continuous monitoring of data across all sources it resides, and response is dynamic and based on the criticality of the data and/or the severity of the threat. There are four key concepts organizations must keep top of mind when considering how to implement data breach detection and response:

• Holistic threat detection: Companies must have comprehensive visibility across various data sources, like cloud, web, network, email and endpoint to identify widespread concerns or risks that are unique to the source.
• Real-time monitoring: Having both a snapshot of data discovery and classification as well as ongoing monitoring of data interactions over time is critical for detecting threats in their early stages and responding appropriately.
• Integrated response: Continuous monitoring must be paired with the ability to respond to incidents efficiently and effectively.
• Enhanced security operations: Centralizing detection and response helps to streamline day-to-day operations. Unifying both detection and response can cut down on response times and reduce the number of false-positive alerts.

Data Detection and Response (DDR) software is an emerging but popular technology for data breach detection and response. It helps organizations stop data breaches through continuous monitoring and early intervention of threats.

How to Scale Data Breach Detection and Response Across Data Sources

The three most important considerations when implementing or scaling a data breach detection and response program are the types of data you need to protect, the state of the data and the data sources that need coverage.

There are two main types of sensitive data that organizations must secure:

• Structured data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Personal Health Information (PII) and other identifying information.
• Unstructured data such as blueprints, images or videos, along with other formats of intellectual property. 

The state of the data will usually indicate how best to secure it, though there is overlap:

• Data-at-rest is often found in a database. or on a hard drive, or a cloud storage site.
• Data-in-motion is common to cloud and web apps or attached to emails.
• Data-in-use is access happening in real time, such as editing a Word document or a spreadsheet.

While there are hundreds of thousands of individual data sources to scale data breach detection and response to, the primary concerns can be categorized into these five buckets:

• Endpoint
• Email
• Network
• Web
• Cloud

That’s why it’s important for organizations to use data security software – or, more likely, a suite of data security products – to protect structured and unstructured data across the various sources accessed by employees, such as cloud and web applications. 

Stop Data Breaches with Forcepoint Data Detection and Response (DDR)

Forcepoint DDR software helps organizations scale their data breach detection and response capabilities across a multitude of data sources, enhancing their data security posture in an era where you can never be certain where or when the next risk will surface.

Delivered as part of the Forcepoint Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform, it builds on the discover and classification capabilities to continuously monitor and dynamically respond to threats as they emerge. As changes introduce new risks in the cloud, on the web or at the endpoint, security teams are notified and can act accordingly to mitigate it.

Forcepoint DDR and DSPM pair well with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to secure the three states of data across the five major buckets of data sources. This ensures a robust data protection posture, regardless of how employees interact with it.

Forcepoint can help your organization scale your data breach detection and response capability across all your mission-critical data sources. Talk to an expert to schedule your demo today.