How to Perform Automated Data Discovery with DSPM

It’s no surprise the amount of data we create continues to increase every year. How much data? According to Statistica, over 400 million terabytes of data are created every day. That translates to about 181 zettabytes of data expected in 2025—a growth rate of more than 23% year over year. Gartner estimates that 80% or more of that new data will be unstructured data. What does all this mean for your organization?

First and foremost, it means you need a solution for securing unstructured data. And secondly, it also means you need a solution that incorporates automated data discovery.

What is automated data discovery?

Automated data discovery is a process that uses advanced technologies, such as AI and machine learning, to locate, classify and analyze data across an organization. It addresses the challenges posed by the rapid growth of data, particularly unstructured data, and offers numerous benefits for security, compliance and operational efficiency.
Automated data discovery helps businesses save money since it considerably reduces expenses associated with the manual, inefficient processes of the past. But the benefits go beyond cost savings—when done right, automated data discovery helps increase productivity, streamline compliance and reduce risk.

How Forcepoint incorporates automated data discovery

You can’t protect data you can’t see. At Forcepoint, automated data discovery starts with Forcepoint Data Security Posture Managment (DSPM), a solution we built to provide visibility and control of all your organization’s data, wherever it resides. In the discovery process, Forcepoint DSPM examines data based on sensitivity and potential risk impact. Our solution offers high-speed, comprehensive discovery both in the cloud and on-premises, allowing you to sort through massive amounts of unstructured data to find where sensitive information resides and who has access to it.

Beyond discovery, Forcepoint DSPM automates the data classification process with the use of AI Mesh technology. AI Mesh arms organizations with superior data classification accuracy. Its networked AI architecture uses a Small Language Model (SLM) along with advanced data and AI components to efficiently capture context from unstructured text. DSPM represents a core component of our Data Security Everywhere approach. As such, it’s one of the main reasons we recently acquired Getvisibility.

Here’s a quick overview of how Forcepoint DSPM works:
 

If you’re interested in learning more about how Forcepoint provides visibility and control of all your organization’s data, talk to an expert today.