AI-Powered Data Security Posture Management

Reduce Your Data Security Risk with DSPM

Secure sensitive data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments with AI-powered discovery, classification, and access governance.

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DSPM OVERVIEW

Proactively secure your most sensitive data anywhere

Discover, classify, and govern sensitive data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments with data security posture management (DSPM). AI classifiers can identify valuable and at-risk data instantly. With clear remediation workflows, you can reduce exposure and more effectively maintain compliance.

Gain meaningful visibility into data risk 

Understand where sensitive data resides, who has access to it, and what exposure risks exist so you can direct controls and remediation where they matter most. 

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Focus on the highest-impact issues 

Assess risk based on data value, access patterns, and potential attack paths. Clear prioritization helps you address what poses the greatest threat to your business. 

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Strengthen protection across your environment 

Apply consistent data security policies, streamline remediation, and reduce exposure from oversharing, excessive permissions, or obsolete data. 

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WHY DSPM MATTERS

AI and cloud data risks are growing faster than security teams can respond

As you accelerate cloud adoption and scale AI‑powered workflows, maintaining visibility and control over sensitive data is essential. Data is harder to track, classify, and govern in AI and cloud environments, leaving teams with limited insight into how it’s accessed or shared. Without a security‑first approach to AI adoption, oversharing, misconfigurations, and insider-driven risks increase the likelihood of a breach.

50 %
of breaches involve PII
95 %
of breached assets are on cloud-based servers
46 %
of breaches expose internal company data

Core DSPM Capabilities

Discover, classify, and govern your critical data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments

Proofpoint DSPM identifies sensitive data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments using AI-powered classification. It assigns monetary value to data, uncovers access risks and misconfigurations, and visualizes attack paths. Admin and content owner remediation workflows and automated controls help you reduce exposure, support compliance, and streamline protection efforts.

AI-Generated Classifiers 

Auto-identify business-critical data (e.g., source code, financial/employee records, contracts), without manual rules or training. 

Risk Prioritization and Real-Time Mitigation 

Quantify data value, map attack paths, and quickly resolve high‑impact issues with direct or delegated remediation across 200+ prebuilt risk findings. 

Data Access Governance 

Identify over-permissioned or obsolete files and remediate exposure through admin and file owner workflows. Track and report on progress. 

Data Security Platform Integration 

Extend data discovery and risk intelligence across DSPM, DLP, and Data Security for AI to speed policy creation, strengthen governance, and reduce data exposure. 

Continuous Compliance Monitoring 

Automatically map against 25+ global compliance frameworks, expose violations, and generate real‑time reports to streamline audits and maintain compliance. 

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ENTERPRISE USE CASES

Strengthen data security posture and access governance for safe AI adoption

Discover, classify, and govern data across your data ecosystem. From reducing data exposure in Microsoft 365 to automating access governance, discovering obsolete data, securing AI training data, and streamlining compliance, these capabilities help reduce risk and protect data wherever it resides.

Data Security Readiness for AI

Reduce data exposure to Copilot and Gemini by identifying AI-accessible sensitive data, detecting excess permissions and risky AI configurations, and remediating before incidents occur.

Data Access Governance

Reduce data exposure with least-privilege access to sensitive data. Remediate over-permissioned access through direct or delegated workflows, with built-in reporting.

Obsolete Data Minimization

Identify inactive sensitive files and automate retention and deletion policies to reduce security and compliance risk, lower storage costs, and improve AI readiness.

Compliance

Reduce audit effort and regulatory exposure by auto-mapping data risks to major frameworks, continuously identifying control gaps and privacy risks, and prioritizing remediation.

AI Training Data Governance

Keep sensitive data out of AI workflows on AWS Bedrock, Azure ML, and GCP Vertex AI services by enforcing protection policies and enabling real‑time sensitivity analysis.

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WHY PROOFPOINT

Proofpoint vs. traditional data security approaches

CapabilityTraditional Data SecurityProofpoint DSPM
Sensitive data discovery Relies on known locations or periodic scans that can miss sensitive data Continuously discovers and classifies sensitive structured and unstructured data across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem environments
Risk visibility and prioritization Finds issues but provides less context to help teams decide what to fix first Shows where sensitive data is exposed and ranks risk using data sensitivity and value, permissions, and attack paths
Data access governance Reviews permissions but often relies on manual analysis and remediation Identifies excessive permissions, supports least-privilege access, and helps teams remediate exposure faster
AI data security Provides limited visibility into AI data access and AI-related risks Identifies data that AI tools can access and applies consistent governance across AI workflows
Compliance and reporting Often requires manual evidence collection and separate reporting processes Maps data risks to 25+ compliance frameworks and generates real-time reports for audits
Unified platform Uses separate security tools that require duplicate policies and manual coordination Shares data classification and risk insights across DSPM, DLP, and Data Security for AI
DLP integration Depends on manual investigation and separate remediation workflows Automates DLP policy creation  to reduce manual work and speed response

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Top industry analysts recognize Proofpoint as a leader in data security

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Continuously Strengthen Your Data Security Posture with Proofpoint DSPM

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GigaOm Radar for Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

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CUSTOMER STORIES

Multi-Campus University Enhances Data Security With Proofpoint
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"The visibility and integrated nature of the Proofpoint solution have empowered us to raise awareness about the risks of data loss."

Assistant Dir. of ICT Services

Multi-Campus University

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Informatica
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"The number of false positives with Proofpoint DSPM is significantly less, which helped us save 60% of the time interacting with the product teams."

Venkat Valleru

Principal Compliance and Security Engineer, Informatica

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A Buyer’s Guide to Data Security Posture Management

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Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot Securely

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Securing and Governing AI in the Modern Enterprise

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Proactive Data Security for AI Readiness: Why Data Access Governance Is Essential

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Frequently Asked Questions

Data security posture management (DSPM) helps you find, classify, and protect sensitive data across cloud services, SaaS, and on-premises environments. It gives you a clear view of where data lives, who can access it, and which risks need attention first.

DSPM helps you:

  • Continuously scan structured and unstructured data across cloud services and data stores.
  • Discover sensitive data and identify security threats before they lead to data loss.
  • Strengthen access controls and reduce excessive permissions.
  • Prioritize risk assessments based on data sensitivity and business impact.
  • Automate remediation to simplify managing data at scale.

Proofpoint DSPM helps security teams reduce data exposure while improving visibility, governance, and control across the entire data estate.

The right DSPM solution should do more than discover data. It should help you understand risk, improve access controls, and make securing data easier across cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications.

Look for a solution that can:

  • Continuously scan cloud services and hybrid environments without moving data.
  • Classify structured and unstructured data with AI.
  • Prioritize risk assessments using data sensitivity, permissions, and attack paths.
  • Automate remediation and policy enforcement.
  • Integrate with DLP, identity, SIEM, and other security tools.
  • Support compliance reporting and AI governance.

Proofpoint DSPM combines these capabilities in one platform to help organizations reduce risk and safely adopt AI.

DSPM helps protect sensitive data across cloud infrastructure and AI applications. It continuously scans data stores, identifies security threats, and shows where stronger controls are needed before data is exposed.

Key capabilities include:

  • Discover sensitive data across SaaS, cloud services, and hybrid environments.
  • Improve access controls with least-privilege recommendations.
  • Detect risky permissions, misconfigurations, and oversharing.
  • Identify data that AI applications and copilots can access.
  • Prioritize remediation based on business risk and data value.

Proofpoint DSPM helps organizations strengthen cloud security while supporting secure AI adoption.

DSPM makes compliance easier by continuously monitoring sensitive data and identifying control gaps before they become audit issues. It helps security teams track risk, manage evidence, and show that the right controls are in place.

DSPM supports compliance by:

  • Continuously scanning sensitive data across cloud services and data stores.
  • Mapping findings to more than 25 global compliance frameworks.
  • Identifying policy violations, privacy risks, and control gaps.
  • Prioritizing remediation based on business risk.
  • Generating reports that support audits and ongoing compliance.

Proofpoint DSPM helps organizations reduce audit effort while strengthening data governance and securing data across cloud and AI environments.

Data access governance helps you see who can access sensitive data and reduce unnecessary access. In DSPM, it combines data discovery with access controls to find excessive permissions, lower data exposure, and protect sensitive data across cloud services and SaaS applications.

Data access governance helps you:

  • Find users, groups, and shared content with excessive access.
  • Enforce least-privilege access to sensitive data.
  • Identify inactive or obsolete files that increase risk.
  • Prioritize remediation based on data sensitivity and business risk.
  • Reduce data exposure to users and AI applications.

Proofpoint DSPM combines AI-powered data classification with data access governance to help security teams secure sensitive data, simplify remediation, and strengthen data protection across their environment.