Thales Unveils Data Risk Intelligence for Proactive Threat Mitigation

Thales, a global leader in advanced technologies, has unveiled Data Risk Intelligence, a groundbreaking solution that redefines data risk visibility and proactive risk mitigation. This innovative tool combines posture and behavior-based data risk indicators to identify and mitigate risks to sensitive data. By uniting the data security capabilities of Imperva’s Data Security Fabric and Thales’ CipherTrust Data Security Platform, Data Risk Intelligence provides highly confident data risk prioritization with clear corrective actions for CIOs, CISOs, and data risk specialists.

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face challenges in managing security across an ever-growing attack surface while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. According to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report, 93% of enterprises reported an increase in threats compared to the previous year. Todd Moore, Vice President of Data Security products at Thales, emphasized that Data Risk Intelligence empowers customers to protect their data and all paths to it. Jennifer Glenn, Research Director at IDC Security and Trust Group, noted that centralizing data risk visibility and management offers valuable context about data vulnerabilities, enabling organizations to prioritize protection where it’s needed most.

Data Risk Intelligence: A New Era in Proactive Risk Mitigation

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face numerous challenges in managing security across an ever-growing attack surface while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. The risks to enterprise data are multi-dimensional, and organizations struggle to address the volume and breadth of these risks while still maintaining optimal business operations. According to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report, 93% of enterprises reported an increase in threats compared to the previous year.

To address this challenge, Thales has unveiled Data Risk Intelligence, a groundbreaking solution that combines posture and behavior-based data risk indicators to proactively identify and mitigate risks to sensitive data. This innovative solution unites the data security capabilities from the Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) and Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platforms, providing highly confident data risk prioritization with clear corrective actions for CIOs, CISOs, and data risk specialists.

Empowering Security Teams with Enhanced Visibility and Control

Data Risk Intelligence delivers a unified visibility of risks to critical data, empowering security teams and SOCs (Security Operations Centers) to accurately identify the most critical data that are at risk by severity and likelihood. This enables them to effectively prioritize risk mitigation with clear recommendations for corrective action. The combined intelligence and contextual insights from Data Risk Intelligence provide a unique view of the strength of encryption for data across an organization’s entire data estate.

The solution utilizes advanced analytics, built upon user permissions, data source vulnerabilities, use of encryption following NIST standards, monitoring of suspicious activities, and other customizable inputs to deliver a highly confident risk score. This enables organizations to prioritize protection where it’s needed most, reducing complexity and delivering risk indicators that drive confident decisions.

Key Benefits of Data Risk Intelligence

Data Risk Intelligence offers several key benefits, including enhanced risk prioritization, comprehensive visibility, customizable risk indicators, encryption integration, and advanced analytics. By combining risk-related intelligence from the Data Security Fabric and CipherTrust Data Security Platform, organizations can make informed decisions about data protection and mitigation strategies.

The solution’s comprehensive visibility provides a unified view of data risks across the entire data estate, reducing complexity and delivering risk indicators that drive confident decisions. Customizable risk indicators allow organizations to tailor risk indicators to their specific environment, highlighting the most critical threats. Encryption integration leverages the encryption capabilities of the CipherTrust Data Security Platform to ensure data protection at all levels.

The Future of Data Risk Mitigation

Data Risk Intelligence is a significant step forward in proactive risk mitigation, enabling organizations to protect their sensitive data and reduce the risk of breaches. As Todd Moore, Vice President, Data Security products at Thales, noted, “The ability to view data risk in key dimensions across organizational risk, asset risk, and regulatory risk in one place is extremely impactful.”

Jennifer Glenn, Research Director, Data and Information Security at IDC Security and Trust Group, added, “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.”

With Data Risk Intelligence, organizations can now take a proactive approach to data risk mitigation, reducing the complexity and cost associated with managing multiple security solutions. As the threat landscape continues to evolve, innovative solutions like Data Risk Intelligence will play an increasingly important role in protecting sensitive data and ensuring business continuity.