Comprehensive Data Security Coverage

Protect all of your data, regardless of format or source

Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) makes it easier to understand and mitigate data risk at every step of the data security journey across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

Structured data

Structured data types are characterized by predefined data models. They are text-based, easy to search, and consist of dates, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, names and transaction histories, etc. These data are generally stored in rows and columns and live in relational databases, data warehouses, etc.

Unstructured data

In the case of unstructured data, there is no defined data model. Data is not always text-based and can be difficult to search. It may include PDF, image, and video files. The data lives in various forms within applications, data warehouses, and data lakes. Examples include emails, messages, and conversation transcripts, to name a few.

Semi-structured data

Semi-structured data is loosely organized in a meta-level structure containing unstructured data in HTML, XML, and JSON formats. These data live in relational databases, tagged-text formats, abstracts, and figures. For example, semi-structured data include server logs, tweets organized by hashtags, and emails sorted by folders.

Database security was already complex, even before the challenges introduced by digital transformation and the rapid pandemic-driven movement of workloads to public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Organizations that have made substantial investments in audit compliance solutions are now feeling pressure to create a data-centric security model that can monitor all data sources, not just those being audited.

As any data security practitioner knows, database proliferation is a very real issue. The cloud affords greater flexibility, but that flexibility can become a double-edged sword due to the ease with which DevOps teams, and even end-users, can quickly create, replicate, and move databases. In the on-premises database world, an organization may have used three to five databases that were the approved standard, and developers would attempt to funnel every application into using those databases. In the cloud world, those three to five databases are going to 10s and 100s of data repositories—and sometimes even more.

Protects all data sources and types

Any data, everywhere: from structured to semi-structured to unstructured

Imperva DSF provides a comprehensive and unified view of enterprise data risks across both structured and unstructured data management systems – meaning your security policies are applied consistently everywhere.

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

Databases

Imperva DSF offers robust protection for various database platforms, including but not limited to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, SAP HANA, Teradata, and more.

File servers

Imperva DSF can protect data stored on file servers, including network-attached storage (NAS) devices and shared file systems.

Cloud storage

With the increasing adoption of cloud computing, Imperva DSF extends its protection to various cloud storage services. This includes popular cloud platforms such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage, and others.

Big data platforms

Imperva DSF can safeguard data residing in big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase.

SaaS applications

Imperva DSF also offers protection for sensitive data stored within Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. It integrates with popular SaaS platforms such as Salesforce, Office 365, and Google Workspace.

Virtualized environments

Imperva DSF can protect data within virtualized environments, including virtual machines and virtualized storage systems.

Supports multiple database and NoSQL platforms & services

Unstructured data is everywhere

In many organizations, the majority of data is unstructured data in email, files from office productivity suites, PDF documents, and various other application files. Organizations have little insight into what most of those files contain or what risk exposure they hold. Many threats from insider mishaps, malicious actors, cyber-attacks, ransomware, and other sources are always lurking in enterprise environments with files spread across on-premises and cloud data repositories.

Gaining visibility and creating a framework to profile the data is a business imperative for data governance, compliance, security, and privacy. The data volume can be overwhelming for a large enterprise, and automated tools are needed to help sort it out. Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) Unstructured Data Discover and Classify provide the capabilities to automate data search, discovery, and classification of unstructured data at an enterprise scale, so you can find exposed sensitive data and protect it before auditors or hackers discover it.

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Files are protected and compliance is covered

In many organizations, unstructured data in the form of email, files from office productivity suites, PDF documents, and various other application files is the majority of their data. Organizations have little insight into what most of those files contain or what risk exposure they hold. Many threats from insider mishaps, malicious actors, cyber-attacks, ransomware, and other sources are always lurking in enterprise environments with files spread across on-premises and cloud data repositories.

Imperva DSF provides visibility into sensitive data’s exact location, volume, and context. Driven by machine learning, it allows data owners to find and identify data regardless of cloud or on-premise environment or data source. Imperva DSF analyzes metadata to determine file owner, data type, data category, and other information, consolidating findings for rapid assessment of current access profiles. Administrators will quickly know whether regulated data types may have over-privileged file entitlements beyond what is intended or entitled for a user. Imperva DSF has a built-in workflow manager to help automate remediation workflows should action be required.

Data Security Platform Overall Leader

Imperva named an overall leader in the 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Data Security Platforms

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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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