Taming Data Sprawl: Discovery to Prevention with Brite + Infolock

At a Glance:

• Organizations are drowning in unstructured, unclassified, and scattered data —known as data sprawl.
• Most can’t fully see or manage this data, leaving them exposed to risk, regulatory fines, and reputational damage.
• Brite + Infolock offers a phased approach: discovery and mapping, then prevention and control.
• The solution combines Infolock’s DSPM, DLP, and DataRAMP™ framework with Brite’s visibility, integration, and compliant infrastructure assistance.

 

An all-too-common problem that organizations are facing in today’s digital age is data sprawl.

This issue occurs when data assets rapidly expand and disperse across multiple systems, locations, and storage solutions. As a result, organizations struggle to manage and monitor their data. This can lead to security risks, inefficient data operations, and increased cloud costs.

Several factors contribute to data sprawl, including:

• An exponential growth in data generation driven by social media and other digital technologies.
• A shift to remote and hybrid work environments, which causes data to scatter across different platforms.
• Implementing multiple data storage solutions such as public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

Obviously, if you don’t know what you have, where it lives, or how it’s being used, you can’t protect it. And if you can’t protect it, then you are opening up your business to security risks.

Thankfully, Brite and Infolock offer the solution that organizations need.

Together, we’ll help you discover and map out your data, establish rules and policies to prevent data loss, and create an infrastructure that meets compliance standards. Let’s dive deeper into what Brite and Infolock can do for you and your data.

 

Phase One: Discovery and Mapping

The Brite + Infolock approach involves two phases: discovery and mapping and prevention and control.

In the first phase, we’ll help your business find the data that you didn’t know you had.

Infolock works with organizations’ existing data security posture management (DSPM) tools to focus on data visibility and control within cloud and hybrid environments. They help businesses understand where their sensitive data resides, how it is being accessed, and how to protect it from threats without ripping and replacing current investments.

Together with Brite, Infolock makes your existing tools work better to maximize ROI. If we find that there is a gap in your tech stack preventing true DSPM, Brite’s team of cybersecurity experts will source and integrate the right tool for your needs.

Infolock’s DataRamp resource, meanwhile, is a control framework that offers a straightforward and unstructured approach for organizations to understand their unique data risks and develop an efficient and prioritized response. DataRamp provides guidance in creating a data risk management program that is easily understood, measured, and is effective in managing all aspects of data risk.

If co-management of any of these tools or systems is needed, then we will also work 24/7 to proactively protect your organization’s data and assets with our Security Operations Center (SOC). Our suite of data protection tools and rule sets simplify the daunting task of ensuring your data is secure, compliant, and always recoverable.

 

Phase Two: Prevention and Control

In phase two of our approach, we turn our attention toward data loss prevention.

DLP focuses primarily on monitoring, detecting, and blocking sensitive data while it is in use, in motion, and at rest to prevent unauthorized access, exfiltration, and data breaches. The main objective of DLP is ensuring that sensitive data does not leave the network without authorization.

Through Infolock’s specialized DLP service package and plans, organizations can:

• Identify sensitive data across all environments, including on-premises and in the cloud.
• Monitor data activities to detect and respond to potential data leakage.
• Protect data using advanced techniques and technologies.

And with Infolock’s INSIGHT Appliance offering, customers will receive a stable, pre-installed, and fully supported environment for rapid DLP deployment, eliminating the need to procure any additional DLP hardware, software, or virtualization technology (software license sold separately).

Working together with Infolock, Brite is there to help by providing integration, visibility, and assistance with developing an infrastructure that meets compliance requirements. If assistance in data governance is necessary, our co-managed options and in-house SOC could be the perfect fit for your team.

 

Why Brite + Infolock? The Value-Add of Partnership

With the Brite and Infolock partnership, organizations get complementary expertise that brings together data-centric security, advisory, and hands-on enforcement.

From data discovery to DLP enforcement to compliance oversight, Brite and Infolock provide end-to-end coverage. As a result, customers see improvements in risk reduction, operational efficiency, and compliance readiness.

 

Defeat Data Sprawl – Contact Brite Today

If your organization is affected by data sprawl, then it’s also more susceptible to data breaches, which is obviously a serious problem. Besides potentially costing your company millions of dollars, breaches can also lead to loss of trust, damage to your reputation, and a variety of other serious consequences.

That’s why choosing Brite and Infolock is so important. We’ll work with you to defeat data sprawl and prevent breaches by helping you regain control of your data.

For an assessment of your organization’s data security posture, contact Brite today at 1-800-333-0498 or SalesInfo@Brite.com.