From data risk to data control: What fixing it at the source looks like
Data security has been on a journey since the introduction of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and the subsequent explosion of AI. As an industry we are better than ever at finding data risk. We did not get equally good at closing it, and the gap between those two capabilities is where most programs currently live. So what actually closes findings faster than new ones arrive?
It’s not more people, just ask the SOC. The math on that has never worked and it isn’t about to start.
The organizations making real progress changed something more basic: they stopped treating remediation as a queue of individual tickets and started treating it as a set of controls applied once and inherited everywhere. It sounds like a semantic distinction but it’s the difference between a backlog that compounds and one that shrinks.
In practice that comes down to three moves.
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