DSPM Tools Compared: Code-Based and Storage-Based Approaches to Data Exposure
Summary
The article compares code-based and storage-based DSPM tools, explaining their different approaches to finding sensitive-data exposure, their tradeoffs, and the limits of each. It reviews Aikido Security, Cyera, Varonis, Wiz, and Orca.
Key points
- Storage-based DSPM scans data stores and can find forgotten data, but requires access to the data and generally does not trace exposures back to the application code that caused them.
- Code-based DSPM analyzes application code and schemas to trace sensitive data flows and may identify risky handling before it reaches production; it can miss data that no code references.
- The article recommends considering data access requirements, coverage of data at rest and in transit, false-positive handling, exposure tracing, remediation, and compliance mapping when evaluating DSPM tools.
- Aikido says its code-based audit identifies data flows and exposures by file and line and can open pull requests for code-level fixes; these are vendor claims described in the article.
- The comparison says Cyera and Varonis focus on data discovery and governance, while Wiz and Orca include DSPM within broader cloud-security platforms; the article notes limitations for each.
Article Details
- Topic
- Comparison of code-based and storage-based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools, including their data-exposure discovery, remediation, and coverage tradeoffs.
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