Sydney, Australia – Thales, an IT services and consulting firm, has recently unveiled its new data risk intelligence solution designed to proactively address risks across all data environments. This strategic move, powered by Imperva Data Security Fabric, marks the first integration of Imperva’s risk and threat identification expertise with the said company’s CipherTrust Data Security Platform.
With the new solution, the firm shared that it would offer a centralised visibility of risks to critical data with a unique view of the strength of encryption for data across an organisation’s entire data estate.
It also equips CIOs, CISOs, and data risk specialists to accurately identify high-risk data, assess threat severity and likelihood, and prioritise mitigation strategies with actionable recommendations.
Furthermore, the data risk intelligence provides a highly confident risk score and clear recommendations for corrective action that are based on a wide-ranging set of data risk indicators through advanced analytics, built upon user permissions, data source vulnerabilities, use of encryption following NIST standards, monitoring of suspicious activities, and other customisable inputs.
Key benefits of the new solution include enhanced risk prioritisation, merging risk-related intelligence from Data Security Fabric and CipherTrust Data Security Platform to provide precise risk scores that drive confident decisions.
Another essential benefit is its comprehensive visibility, which aims to offer a centralised view of data risks across the entire data estate, reducing complexity, delivering risk indicators, and recommending protective measures.
Next involves customisable risk indicators, allowing organisations to customise risk indicators to their specific environment, highlighting the most critical threats. Included as well is an encryption integration that employs the encryption capabilities of the CipherTrust Data Security Platform to ensure data protection at all levels.
Lastly, advanced analytics offers posture-based and machine-learning behavioural risk indicators to identify and prioritise the highest-risk data.
Todd Moore, vice president, data security products at Thales, said, “The ability to view data risk in key dimensions across organisational risk, asset risk, and regulatory risk in one place is extremely impactful. Data Risk Intelligence is the first of many integrations between the Thales and Imperva platforms that empower our customers to protect their data and all the paths to it.”
“Through our combined platforms, Thales has all the tools to help our customers understand their data security risks and provide a clear set of actions to mitigate these risks,” Moore added.
Jennifer Glenn, research director, data and information security at IDC Security and Trust Group, also shared, “The risks to enterprise data are multi-dimensional, and organisations are struggling to address the volume and breadth of these risks while still maintaining optimal business operations.”
“Centralising data risk visibility and management offers valuable context about the data—and it’s vulnerabilities—enabling organisations to prioritise protection where it’s needed most,” Glenn further remarked.
