Top DSPM Use Cases: Compliance, Data Security, AI Mesh and More

What’s a great way to learn about modern data security solutions? Examining top use cases is one of the best ways to understand how a security solution can help organizations get more control over their data.

Forcepoint Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is a proactive solution for data security and compliance. We’ve summarized some of the top DSPM use cases below, so you can learn more about how it helps with compliance, data security, AI readiness and more. 

Compliance Readiness

For the first DSPM use case, we'll look at compliance readiness.

Ever-changing regulations worldwide make it difficult for organizations to stay on top of compliance. And failure to meet compliance standards can result in hefty fines, data loss and hurt customers’ trust in an organization. Manual compliance processes increase risk and cost.

Forcepoint DSPM is here to help reduce costs and reduce risk, while helping with continuous compliance.

With Forcepoint DSPM, organizations can simplify compliance processes with automation to ensure consistent and continuous alignment with evolving regulations, reducing manual effort. 

Securely Enable AI

In addition to compliance benefits, Forcepoint DSPM is ideal for organizations that need to securely enable AI. Employees around the world have been embracing emerging AI technologies, so it’s crucial to mitigate the risk of data loss and misuse with a solution that can help manage guardrails for AI usage.

One of the most exciting features of Forcepoint DSPM is that it can enhance security for popular AI tools. More specifically, it can help manage GenAI data leakage risks.

Unmanaged shadow AI usage poses numerous risks to sensitive data, and without the right guardrails, sharing sensitive data with the wrong AI vendor can put data at risk and wipe out any theoretical productivity gains.

Forcepoint DSPM offers visibility and control into data readiness for GenAI applications. 

Data Discovery

More on visibility and control, Forcepoint DSPM also shines a light on dark data with extensive data discovery.

DSPM continuously discovers data across cloud, network and on-premises storage to uncover and catalog every piece of data your organization has. Finding sensitive data is the crucial first step in protecting it. 

AI-Powered Data Classification

In order to better help organizations get visibility and control over sensitive data, Forcepoint DSPM’s data classification is powered by AI.

More specifically, it utilizes highly accurate AI Mesh technology for efficient and reliable data discovery and classification, reducing false positives and enhancing incident alert accuracy.

Forcepoint AI Mesh is a highly networked classification architecture that uses a Small Language Model (SLM), classifiers and other predictive AI capabilities.

AI-powered data classification that Forcepoint DSPM provides enables real-time classification and protection of sensitive data across your entire digital ecosystem, with a degree of accuracy that legacy solutions can’t reach. 

ChatGPT Data Security

We mentioned a bit earlier how Forcepoint DSPM helps securely enable AI, but we want to revisit that in the context of ChatGPT data security. While ChatGPT may be used often by many companies, its use could put companies at risk.

Forcepoint DSPM offers visibility and control into data readiness for GenAI applications. It is also able to help secure ChatGPT Enterprise usage. 

Data Access Governance

Forcepoint DSPM also helps strengthen data access governance.

As data sprawls across cloud, SaaS and on-prem systems, organizations struggle to maintain visibility, enforce access controls and meet compliance mandates. Traditional tools lack the context and automation needed to manage data risk at scale.

By providing a centralized view of your data, Forcepoint DSPM makes it ultimately easier to implement and enforce data governance policies. 

Secure M365 and Copilot

Given today’s rising usage of GenAI tools and other cloud apps, we’re especially excited about Forcepoint DSPM’s ability to help secure M365 and Copilot.

Unchecked Microsoft 365 and Copilot usage turns productivity into risk. Forcepoint DSPM can help by supporting security of business-critical data with visibility of files and AI‑powered classification.

With Forcepoint DSPM, organizations can discover and classify data automatically with advanced AI Mesh for proactive defense. 

Mitigate Data Risk

Data is everywhere and so are its risks. With features, such as the ability to identify redundant, obsolete or trivial data and remove them, Forcepoint DSPM helps mitigate data risk.

Moreover, Forcepoint DSPM provides actionable insights that enable organizations to manage permissions, move misplaced data and dress data sovereignty, access and duplicate or ROT data issues.

A lack of data awareness inflates cost and attack surface. That’s why Forcepoint DSPM is an essential solution to mitigate data risk. 

Extends Visibility Across the Cloud

Forcepoint DSPM also provides extensive visibility across cloud and on-premises environments, helping organizations identify and manage sensitive data effectively.

A solution like Forcepoint DSPM can help strengthen organizations’ security posture in today’s multi-cloud landscape.
Now that you’ve had a chance to review top DSPM use cases, download “Executive Guide to DSPM: Visibility and Control over Sensitive Data” to learn even more.