Data Retention, Archiving | Compliance Solutions

Designed for building cost-efficient compliance clouds

Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) allows you to import data from cloud and on-premises sources, customize the data using pipelines, visualize and report on the data, and archive the data for compliance purposes. The ability to manage an archive and purge data retention policy provides an efficient storage framework to help meet compliance requirements and reduces the costs of operating and maintaining data in the cloud.

Imperva DSF Data Retention & Archive was designed for building compliance clouds. The underlying architecture uses low-cost object stores on-premise while enabling you to use the public cloud for long-term retention.

All data is always available for querying, reporting, and analytics, whether in local storage, in the cloud, in cold storage, or even offline. Data access is transparent, so you can simply run a query, and the system manages the correct data access.

Key features and benefits

Meet any archiving requirement cost-effectively
“Set and forget” — data is automatically consolidated, deduplicated, and compressed
Free staff from all aggregation, archive, restore, and other manual processes
Automatically optimize underlying storage – whether Disk, SAN, or Cloud – for optimal cost efficiency

Extreme compression delivers unprecedented storage efficiencies

Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) utilizes a proprietary, purpose-built hybrid columnar compression algorithm optimized for data store audit data. Our algorithm delivers extreme compression within DSF — up to 10x! — which automatically reduces the amount of storage required for meeting multi-year compliance retention requirements. With the native compression found in Imperva DSF, IT organizations can expand the size of their data stores while potentially delaying new storage purchases for a significant amount of time.

Hybrid columnar Compression

Traditionally, data has been organized within a database block in a 'row' format, where all column data for a particular row is stored sequentially within a single database block. Having data from columns, with different data types stored close together, limits the amount of storage savings achievable with compression technology. An alternative approach is storing data in a 'columnar' format, where data is organized and stored by column. Storing column data together with the same data type and similar characteristics dramatically increases the storage savings achieved from compression. However, storing data in this manner has the potential to slow database performance when application queries span multiple columns. Imperva's algorithm overcomes this limitation by storing a representation of the row data as a separate column within the compressed data, resulting in exceptionally fast querie

Imperva fast view

Data Security Fabric always keeps your most current audit data available for immediate viewing, reporting, and analysis through a process called Fast View. The amount of data available in Fast View is configurable, allowing you to specify how many days’ worth of data you would like DFS to fetch and have available for immediate access.

Depending on the size of your local data estate, with Imperva’s hybrid columnar compression algorithms, combined with local storage tiering, it is possible to have all of your audit data available in Fast View enabling unprecedented levels of speed and agility while accessing audit data for reporting and analysis.

Total control of the archiving and purge lifecycle

With Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) Data Retention & Archive, the complete lifecycle of your data archive is under your control. Regardless if your data is stored locally – or if you opt to use cloud storage – you can set specific policies for individual data stores and/or groups of data stores to control the duration of how long data is retained. When you use cloud storage, you can set additional options in your retention policy to move data to different storage tiers based on the age of the data.

Data Security Fabric Data Retention & Archive diagram

Designed to work with object storage from leading cloud service providers

Amazon S3
Microsoft Azure Blob
Google Cloud Platform
IBM Cloud SoftLayer

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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