2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Data Security Solution  

Broadcom’s Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data security product was designed to help enterprises mitigate data breaches and compliance risks. The DLP addresses a market need for high accuracy, stability at scale, and simple policy integration across all major data loss vectors. By incorporating insights from Information Centric Analytics (UEBA), customers can create adaptive policies that respond to changing user behavior, reducing the likelihood of incurring breach recovery costs. DLP promises better risk reduction, data scanning capabilities, reduced operational costs, and high accuracy. Symantec DLP helps its customers manage data security using a single policy across multiple hybrid channels and combining user risk profiles as part of the detection policy. The total cost of ownership includes subscription licensing, which gets metered on a per-user, per-year basis. Security content updates occur hourly, with product features updated monthly. By offering an all-inclusive, per-user licensing model, customers can deploy a full range of DLP features without additional investments. Symantec DLP reduces risks associated with false positives and eliminates the need for breach recovery investments, promising a sound return on investment for customers.

Dasera’s data security product was designed to meet the growing demand for secure data usage in the cloud. The platform discovers and classifies data, mitigates data sprawl and shadow data, and operationalizes data through access controls and policy implementation. This allows for real-time, contextualized visibility of an organization’s data infrastructure, attributes, and users, promising automatic cloud data protection throughout the data life cycle. Businesses can benefit from faster detection and mitigation of risks and breaches, reduced legal and reputational risks, and enhanced data security and collaboration across teams. Dasera offers context-aware data security, continuous data risk monitoring, data-centric security, real-time compliance monitoring, and aims to break down security, compliance, and data silos. The total cost of ownership for Dasera includes a software license fee, startup costs for integration, and costs for self-managed deployments. Dasera has one major release per quarter and minor updates approximately every three weeks. By offering comprehensive and automated data security and compliance solutions, Dasera works closely with its customers to optimize resources, improve collaboration, and protect valuable data assets.

DoControl, a finalist for Most Promising Early-Stage Start-Up, offers a No-Code SaaS Security Platform that addresses the security challenges posed by increasing SaaS utilization in enterprises. The platform provides full asset management, real-time user activity monitoring, and automated remediation. It also recently launched a Shadow Apps solution to protect against SaaS supply chain attacks. DoControl is privately held and does not disclose its customer count but has seen significant growth in sales and customer base. The company completed a $30 million Series B funding round in April 2022, led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $43.4 million. The firm is committed to innovation and plans to enhance risk management capabilities, expand its application ecosystem, and improve Security Workflows.

Proofpoint Information Protection offers a people-centric approach to data security, focusing on user intent to mitigate risk. The platform combines telemetry of content, user behavior, and threats across data loss channels such as email, cloud services, endpoints, on-premises file repositories, and the web. Designed for organizations of all sizes, Proofpoint Information Protection offers a scalable, cost-effective, and cloud-native option. The platform correlates explicit email, cloud, and threat intelligence with behavioral insight and advanced data detection, including AI-powered classification and Exact Data Matching. In 2022, Proofpoint acquired Dathena, which enhanced its offering with petabyte-scale data discovery and classification capabilities. Proofpoint Information Protection promises an excellent cost of ownership compared to legacy DLP solutions, as it’s cloud-based and requires little to no on-premises infrastructure. The per-user pricing model allows for predictable incremental costs as businesses grow. Proofpoint’s platform has been deployed to more than 46 million users worldwide.

The Rubrik Security Cloud addresses the increasing demand for data security as cyberattacks become more prevalent. According to Rubrik’s State of Data Security report, more than 98% of organizations experienced a cyberattack in the past year. Rubrik’s Zero Trust Data Security helps businesses achieve resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions by promising to secure data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments. By leveraging machine learning, Rubrik detects anomalous behavior and suspicious file actions to identify ransomware. The platform offers data resilience through extensive security controls, data observability via analytics, and data remediation with the capability to test and deploy recovery playbooks automatically. The Rubrik Security Cloud delivers two major product updates a year, along with continuous updates. It serves more than 4,500 customers worldwide.