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SaaS Security Administrator's Guide

What’s Data Security?

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What’s Data Security?

Learn about Data Security capabilities.

Data Security is a security solution that connects to your sanctioned SaaS application using the SaaS application’s API. This API integration enables the service to discover and scan all assets retroactively when you first connect the SaaS application. Data Security scans and analyzes all your assets and applies policy to identify exposures, external collaborators, risky user behavior, and sensitive documents and identifies the potential risks associated with each asset.

Data Security also performs deep content inspection and protects both your historical assets and new assets from malware, data exposure, and data exfiltration. As Data Security identifies incidents, you can assess them and define automated actions to eliminate or close the incident. After the initial scan of your historical assets, Data Security continuously monitors each SaaS application and applies policy against new or modified assets for ongoing incident assessment and protection.

To provide visibility into the security challenges with data classification and governance, security gaps owing to noncompliance, sharing or permission violations, and malware propagation within the sanctioned cloud applications on your network, Data Security focuses on the following key areas:

Content Security—The content you store in each cloud application is an asset. Data Security provides visibility into your asset inventory to help you uncover accidental or malicious data exposure. Data Security discovers the assets residing in the cloud application, assesses the shared or exposed data within and outside your organization, and identifies the impact or risk to intellectual property and regulatory noncompliance. In addition to creating an incident and alerting the administrator, the service provides autoremediation capabilities, including the option to quarantine, change sharing, or notify the owner.
User Activity Monitoring—Data Security uses a combination of tools including machine language learning, predefined and user-defined data patterns, security configuration controls, and access to event logs auditing user access and activity on each cloud application. With these tools, it builds context on sensitive data within your environment, identifies thresholds for expected and unexpected behavior, and uses this intelligence to log a violation or alert you to risky user behavior and possible data leaks from accidental or malicious user activity.
Security Configuration Controls—Data Security provides policies allowing you to manage and restrict privileged user activity, email forwarding, and retention rules, and protects you from misconfigurations such as lack of storage volume encryption, lack of enforcement for securing keys, credentials, and multi-factor authentication . When any of these security issues occur, you can configure the service to generate an alert or log it as a policy violation.
Third-Party App Integrations—Threats from third-party apps are serious because these apps have access to all or a large part of the data in the related cloud app. Protect your users and network from misconfigurations and known and unknown malware arising from these app integrations with a service that gives you the ability to approve, block, or restrict third-party app installation.

Data Security complements SaaS Security Inline capabilities to provide an integrated CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) solution.

Get Started with Data Security

Navigate To Data Security in Cloud Management Console