Organizations hold a treasure trove of sensitive information. Protecting this data from cyberattacks is paramount. And that's where Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) comes in.
DSPM acts like a security expert for your data, keeping an up-to-date view of your sensitive information, identifying security and access vulnerabilities, and providing insights into problematic user behavior. By continuously monitoring your data and access controls, DSPM helps security teams stay ahead of ever-evolving threats.
DSPM is a game-changer for security teams, giving them invaluable visibility into your data landscape and powerful tools for automating vulnerability detection and helps organizations comply with global regulations. But to effectively gain these benefits, it’s essential to implement a trusted DSPM solution such as Rubrik—which GigaOm has named a leader and outperformer in the evolving DSPM landscape.
The Value of DSPM
Organizations are facing a significant challenge in securing their data as it gets scattered across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises locations. Legacy data security tools are not sufficient to handle this complexity. DSPM is a new and evolving solution that helps organizations gain visibility into all their data.
With the ever-growing data demands, DSPM is becoming an essential tool for modern data security leaders. DSPM solutions can find and analyze data across all platforms, including forgotten and shadow repositories. This gives organizations a clearer picture of their data security posture. This clearer view helps security teams identify and mitigate risks.
GigaOm Radar report evaluates 12 of the top DSPM solutions to help organizations choose the right solution for their needs.
Here are some of the criteria GigaOm used to evaluate the DSPM market:
Data mapping: Any organization looking to safeguard its data must first get a complete view of the data estate. Leading solutions should provide such a summary—and identify any risks to the data.
Data access intelligence: Organizations must also be able to track data access. Who (or what) is looking at the data and when?
Support for cloud and on-premises repositories: Enterprise computing has embraced the cloud. But large repositories of data (especially in large enterprises) remain on-premises. Any modern DSPM solution must be able to monitor data in either location.
Security posture assessment: Any effective DSPM solution must provide a clear view of the current data security posture and suggest steps for improving data security policies.
Data detection and response (DDR): A modern DSPM solution must be able to quickly identify active threats, automate their mitigation, and reduce their impact.
Enterprise stack integration: The ability to integrate with existing enterprise systems is essential to the success of any modern DSPM solution.
Why Rubrik is a DSPM Leader and Outperformer
According to the GigaOm Radar report, “Rubrik DSPM is a strong solution for larger organizations looking for comprehensive data discovery, classification, and governance for complex data sets that straddle cloud, SaaS, and on-premises.”
Moreover, GigaOm highlighted the benefits of the integration of Rubrik DSPM with the broader Rubrik data protection solution set. This is particularly attractive for companies looking to bring data security and protection together under a single vendor, since DSPM provides a comprehensive view of an organization's data security posture.

GigaOm identified three key strengths that differentiated Rubrik DSPM from the competition:
Support for on-premises repositories: Rubrik provides comprehensive support for on-premises data repositories, including Windows, Unix/Linux, VMware, Oracle, SAP, NAS, and NoSQL. The SaaS-based architecture eases integration and reduces risk.
Data detection and response: Rubrik identifies unusual data access and suspicious behavior, alerting customers about data exfiltration, third-party access, insider threats, accidental data leaks, and data misuse. It enables immediate responses by streamlining mitigation workflows to reduce the mean time to respond (MTTR) and can also streamline alerts to incident response tools.
Ease of management: Rubrik’s DSPM integration with Rubrik’s Security Cloud offers a compelling data management option for customers. It provides a comprehensive risk overview and can trigger additional data protection capabilities, such as initiating data backup when sensitive data is identified, making it attractive to many companies.
GigaOm also underscored three key features of Rubrik DSPM that should be of interest to those in the market for a DSPM solution:
Resilient architecture: Rubrik features a SaaS-based agentless architecture that can scan production and backup environments without relying on metadata sent over collectors. This increases system resilience, allowing continued operation even if collectors are impacted by an attack or downtime.
Continuous monitoring: Rubrik's DSPM offers continuous security posture assessment, which is crucial for staying ahead of evolving threats.
Security across platforms: Rubrik DSPM secures data in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Snowflake, BigQuery, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
To learn more about why GigaOm named Rubrik a DSPM leader and outperformer, read the complete report or reach out to our team for a guided tour.