Turn Compliance Chaos into Confidence by Automating Reporting

Meeting compliance requirements like GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA has become a continuous challenge as data spreads across cloud apps, endpoints and hybrid environments. Manual audits and static reports can’t keep up with the pace or complexity of today’s data landscape.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platforms offer a modern, automated approach to compliance reporting. By automatically classifying sensitive data, mapping access and surfacing risk insights, DSPM helps security and governance teams maintain visibility and control of sensitive data across the cloud and on-premises—and generates insights with minimal manual effort.

This blog post explains how companies can automate compliance reporting using Forcepoint DSPM. We’ll explore how dynamic discovery, automated classification, risk-prioritized remediation and AI-driven insights support sustainable, scalable data governance.

Dynamic Data Discovery and Classification Support Compliance Automation

Tracking where sensitive data resides and who has access to it is a foundational aspect of compliance with global regulations. With data constantly shifting across SaaS applications, collaboration tools, cloud storage and hybrid infrastructure, traditional discovery methods fall short. Companies need a better way to maintain an accurate data inventory and reduce compliance gaps.

Forcepoint DSPM addresses this challenge through dynamic data discovery and automated classification. Through dynamic monitoring, it performs complete periodic data scans across cloud and on-premises sources to update the inventory of sensitive data. This continuous scanning model helps governance teams keep pace with changing data footprints while minimizing disruptions.

At the core of Forcepoint DSPM is automated classification powered by AI Mesh technology. AI Mesh uses a Small Language Model (SLM) in conjunction with deep neural network classifiers, light AI classifiers and other predictive AI capabilities to deliver highly accurate, context-aware classifications. This advanced classification engine automatically identifies sensitive data types such as personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), and intellectual property. Pre-built policies align with major compliance frameworks like GDPR and HIPAA, reducing the need for manual tagging or rule creation.

Together, these capabilities help organizations maintain an up-to-date, accurate view of their data landscape, eliminate blind spots, and understand how data residency and regulatory exposure affect compliance risk.

Here's an overview of how Forcepoint DSPM helps manage data risk to streamline compliance: 
 

Supporting Compliance Monitoring with DSPM Insights

Compliance teams face increasing challenges in tracking where sensitive data resides and ensuring it is properly classified and protected. Manual methods of discovering and evaluating data are time-consuming and often miss critical exposure risks. And that’s especially true as organizations scale across cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments.

Forcepoint DSPM supports compliance monitoring by providing centralized visibility into sensitive data through automated classification and access mapping. It identifies where regulated data types like PII, PHI, and intellectual property exist, how they are being accessed and whether they are exposed beyond intended permissions.

The solution includes customizable dashboards that allow governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams to view classification trends, surface risks, and monitor exposure across data environments. These insights help teams validate whether policies are working as intended and identify gaps that could create regulatory concerns.

Rather than focusing on static or reactive reporting, Forcepoint DSPM provides a continuous flow of intelligence that supports ongoing compliance efforts, even as data changes over time. This helps GRC and security teams reduce blind spots and take proactive steps toward stronger data governance.

Using Risk-Based Remediation to Strengthen Data Compliance Posture

While automation can streamline discovery, classification and visibility, remediation still requires thoughtful oversight. Responding to compliance risks often depends on understanding business context and applying governance policies with nuance.

Forcepoint DSPM enables this balance by surfacing prioritized, actionable risk insights. The platform highlights issues such as:

• Overexposed or publicly accessible sensitive data
• Unused access permissions that violate least privilege
• Policy violations based on regulatory or internal rules

Each risk finding is accompanied by detailed context that supports informed decision-making. Rather than enforcing blanket remediations, Forcepoint DSPM provides workflows for remediation to help facilitate collaboration between data owners, data security teams and legal teams. These workflows can remove public sharing permissions, or they could move a file to a quarantine location so teams can leverage further decision and action with human oversight. 

This risk-based, governance-aligned approach ensures precision in response efforts without sacrificing speed. It also reduces the chance of missteps caused by over-automation, such as removing critical access or flagging false positives.

Forcepoint DSPM offers a scalable path to automating compliance

Forcepoint DSPM offers a practical, scalable path to automating compliance support. With dynamic data discovery, AI-powered classification via AI Mesh, and customizable dashboards that surface actionable insights, it provides the visibility GRC teams need to govern sensitive data confidently. And with prioritized remediation workflows that support human oversight, companies can take swift, accurate action to address compliance risks without compromising operational integrity.

By combining automation with control, Forcepoint DSPM helps organizations stay ahead of compliance challenges in an increasingly complex data environment. Talk to an expert today to learn more. Or sign up for a free Forcepoint Data Risk Assessment.