Data Security Guides
Vendor-aware but education-first guides to the five disciplines of data-centric security: Data Loss Prevention, Data Classification, Sensitive Data Discovery, Data Security Posture Management and File Integrity Monitoring — how each works, how they fit together, and how to evaluate them for enterprise deployment.
Channels, policies, architecture
Labels, scanning, inventory
Posture, integrity, evidence
The data security topic library
Each guide anchors a cluster of deeper articles, use cases and product documentation.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a category of security controls that identifies sensitive data in files, messages and transfers, and enforces policy on how that data may move — blocking, warning, requiring justification or logging as it crosses e-mail, web, removable media, print and other exit channels.
13 articles in this topicData Classification
Data classification is the practice of assigning a sensitivity level to information — such as public, internal, confidential or restricted — and recording that decision as a persistent label in the file's own metadata and visible markings.
11 articles in this topicSensitive Data Discovery
Sensitive data discovery is the automated scanning of structured databases, file shares, endpoints and cloud storage to locate regulated and confidential information — personal data, payment data, health records, intellectual property — and report exactly where it resides.
11 articles in this topicData Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is an operating model that continuously discovers where sensitive data lives, classifies it, evaluates its exposure, and drives protection and remediation — as one loop rather than four disconnected tools.
9 articles in this topicFile Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) detects changes to critical files, folders and configurations, compares them against a trusted baseline, and records who changed what and when.
9 articles in this topic