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Evolve data security for multicloud expansion

The technology landscape is constantly changing and growing. The cloud has become an urgent business imperative for nearly every organization. Cloud demands modernizing your Data Activity Monitoring program to meet the complexity and elasticity of cloud database services. Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) meets the demand with capabilities that integrate seamlessly with your existing Data Activity Monitoring implementation so you can painlessly expand security and compliance to the cloud. Scale database activity monitoring to 65+ modern data repositories, including all major cloud providers' database services. With Imperva DSF, you are “future-proofed” to cover your immediate needs and future integrations as you expand your workloads to the cloud.

Imperva DSF's multicloud data security difference

Provides broadest coverage across multicloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments

Protection for modern digital infrastructure

Legacy security tools lack the visibility and control needed to protect modern data store infrastructure. The massive diversity of technology options for digital infrastructure has brought more security challenges across an expanding attack surface. The cloud enables DevOps teams to move quickly, yet often this flexibility means data stores are managed by developers who can bypass IT operations and security processes.

Imperva DSF automatically safeguards on-premises data stores while simultaneously extending data security to cloud-native Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) technologies found in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud — as well as popular NoSQL vendors such as Snowflake, DataStax, Cloudera, and many more — defending your organization as you expand cloud operations.

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Protects any data sources and types, across structured, semi-structured, & unstructured

Mass adoption of the Internet and the digitization of the economy since 2010 has led to an explosion of heterogeneous data

The amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world grew from 1.2 zettabytes in 2010 to 59 zettabytes in 2020. By 2025, IDC predicts that the global datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes.

Gone are the days of centralized, monolithic applications. Today we have multitudes of users constantly creating data through the web and mobile apps. A single organization may have data stored across hundreds of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data stores spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud service providers.

Imperva DSF can protect any data store that your organization utilizes as you continue your cloud expansion to keep pace with modern business.

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Integrates with ecosystem technologies for incident context and additional data capabilities

Leverage your existing security investments as you expand to a multicloud data store environment

There are multiple scenarios where you may be forced to use multiple data security solutions to protect your data. For example, you may have a SIEM solution that monitors your on-premises data stores, but it does not support the cloud-native data stores you are using in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. The same situation may present itself with your data activity monitoring (DAM), identity management, encryption, or data masking solutions.

Imperva DSF integrates with your existing data security investments, regardless of their location, providing total visibility and allowing you to create unified data security policies that span your entire data estate.

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Unified visibility, control, automation, & insights via a single data service or dashboard

Apply data security and compliance controls while gaining visibility of all different data types (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) residing in different environments (on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multicloud)

Imperva Data Security Fabric is a unified Data Security platform that brings new and existing data security controls together to fill the gaps created by data stores moving to cloud, hybrid, and multicloud environments. By providing full visibility into data activity across all data stores, it is easier for data security, compliance, governance, and privacy teams to manage the lifecycle around sensitive and business-critical data, no matter where it resides. The key benefit of this unified, data-centric approach is that it enables these teams to understand and mitigate risky data access events before they turn into a data breach.

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Imperva Data Security Fabric provides the broadest coverage across multicloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments

With Imperva DSF you can standardize data security controls across large and complex enterprise data environments, so you have full visibility and centralized command of what is happening across all of your file stores and data assets, on-premises, in the hybrid cloud, and across multiple clouds.

Imperva's flexible architecture supports a broad range of data repositories, from legacy mainframe systems to modern big data systems and cloud-managed database services, and everything in between. Imperva DSF enables you to migrate your data to the cloud without creating compliance and security gaps – ensuring a safe digital transformation.

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Key capabilities that enable data security at scale

Data Discovery & Classification

Databases, unstructured file repositories, and cloud applications tend to grow and expand. Many organizations cannot even catalog their digital assets in the cloud. Thus, discovering all DBaaS instances and unstructured data files with sensitive information and classifying them for their content becomes important, and is required for most privacy regulations.

Data Activity Monitoring

Data activity monitoring helps organizations demonstrate compliance by monitoring and auditing data access and usage within the cloud environment. It enables organizations to track and report on data activities to meet regulatory obligations. Imperva DSF Data Activity Monitoring continuously monitors and analyzes all database activity automatically, including local privileged user access and service accounts – in real time – to ensure regulatory compliance mandates are met.

Data Risk Analytics

Imperva DSF Data Risk Analytics helps identify potential security threats and malicious activities within the cloud environment. These capabilities, which are not inherent to cloud-native data store services, allow organizations to detect unauthorized access attempts, suspicious data transfers, and other abnormal behavior that may indicate a security breach or data compromise.

How data security for multicloud expansion benefits industry

Healthcare relies on secure data and reliable access to it

Imperva delivers end-to-end protection and compliance for critical healthcare data and applications.

Data security for financial services

Imperva protects banks, insurance companies, payments providers, and financial exchanges with data security for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid data stores.

Government cyber protection

Defense-in-depth security for government organizations and agencies. Imperva helps authorities prevent cyber attacks, identify insider threats, and achieve data compliance.

How to create a Data Security strategy when moving workloads to the Cloud

How do you build a data security strategy that works in cloud-based environments and avoid building a “business blocker” reputation in the process? This whitepaper explores the data security challenges that every enterprise confronts when moving workloads to the cloud. You’ll get insight into the fundamental differences and complexities that cloud platforms bring to the data security landscape. You’ll learn how and why the benefits that moving workflows to the cloud offer are also the reasons why traditional database monitoring and reporting solutions are not viable in cloud environments.

We’ll explore the “value imbalance” that has been created by the rising cost of traditional database monitoring tools and explain why addressing that imbalance today is critical to the future of data security, both in the cloud and on-premise.

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Imperva Data Security Fabric protects all data types with a single system that delivers multiple business capabilities

Imperva Data Security Fabric is the first data-centric solution that enables your organization's security and compliance teams to quickly and easily secure sensitive data, no matter where it resides, with an integrated, proactive approach to visibility and predictive analytics.

Imperva Data Security Fabric is composed of cutting-edge orchestrated technical capabilities that work in unison to protect your data across your entire organization:

Data Discovery & Classification

Discover ungoverned data, classify all data, and assess vulnerabilities.

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Data Activity Monitoring

Gain complete visibility and ensure compliance with continuous monitoring, auditing and analyzing all data store and data types.

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Data Retention & Archive

Meet any data archiving requirement using the most cost efficient storage technology available.

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Data Risk Management

Detect and report non-compliant, risky, or malicious data access behavior across all of your data repositories enterprise-wide to accelerate remediation.

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Ecosystem Integrations

Enhance the value of your existing technology investments - for both incident context and additional data capabilities.

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Data Encryption & Tokenization

Protect critical data with encryption, key management, and tokenization wherever it resides.

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Static Data Masking

Modify sensitive data so it is of no value to unauthorized users while still being usable by your systems.

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Automated Workflows & Playbooks

Achieve higher scale and increase DevOps efficiency through the use of automated workflows delivered through trusted repositories.

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Sensitive Data Management

Identify, locate, classify, and secure sensitive data across various data stores located either on-premises or in the cloud.

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