Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

DSPM takes a data-first approach to security, answering three questions most teams struggle with: what sensitive data do we have, where does it live, and who can reach it? From there, it prioritizes and remediates the access and exposure risks most likely to cause a breach.

DLP focuses on stopping data from leaving your environment at the point of egress. DSPM focuses on the posture of the data itself: discovering it, classifying it, and reducing risky access before anything moves. The two work together, and accurate classification from DSPM makes DLP more effective.

CSPM secures cloud infrastructure and configurations. DSPM secures the data inside those environments wherever it lives, including on-premises. CSPM tells you a storage bucket is misconfigured; DSPM tells you that bucket holds regulated data too many identities can access.

At a minimum it should discover and classify sensitive data across cloud and on-prem, map who can access it, assess and prioritize risk, remediate exposure automatically, and monitor activity for threats. Netwrix DSPM does all five and connects data risk to identity so you can fix the root cause.

Yes. Netwrix DSPM covers structured and unstructured data across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, including file shares, databases, and business apps, with no migration required.

DSPM gives you a continuously updated inventory of regulated data such as PII, PCI, and PHI, along with who can access it. That inventory is the foundation for demonstrating compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and similar mandates, and it supports structured handling of data subject access requests.

It shrinks the amount of exposed sensitive data before an attacker or a tool like Copilot can reach it. DSPM finds overexposed and shadow data, tightens access toward least privilege, and remediates risky conditions continuously rather than during periodic reviews.

Data classification tags sensitive data by type and sensitivity. DSPM uses that classification as an input, then adds continuous risk assessment, identity correlation, and automated remediation on top of it. Classification tells you what the data is; DSPM tells you who can reach it and what to fix.