Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

The risk: your data has outgrown your security

Most organisations today face the same set of problems:

• Unknown data sprawl – Sensitive data scattered across SaaS, IaaS, on-prem, file shares, backups and AI platforms, with no single view of where it actually is.
• Over-exposed and overshared data – Excessive permissions, public links, legacy accounts and stale data sets quietly increasing your breach impact.
• AI & analytics blind spots – Training data, prompts, exports and shadow AI tools creating new leakage paths outside traditional controls.
• Regulatory & contractual pressure – GDPR, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 and customer audits all asking the same question: “Show us you know where your sensitive data is and how you protect it.”
• Tool complexity – Multiple DLP, CASB, CSPM and backup solutions – but no clear picture of how they fit together around the data itself.

DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) is designed to solve exactly this – but the market is noisy and every vendor claims to do everything.

That’s where e3 comes in.

Our role: vendor-agnostic DSPM & data protection specialist

We are fully vendor-agnostic and 100% focused on your requirements, not on selling a specific product.

e3 helps you:

• Architect DSPM in the total data protection picture
  We design DSPM as the “data brain” in your security stack – working together with DLP, IAM, PAM, CSPM, SIEM/SOAR and backup solutions, instead of becoming yet another silo.
• Choose the right technologies, not just the loudest brands
  We know the real differences between the major DSPM and DLP vendors:
  – Where they are strong (SaaS vs. data lakes vs. code vs. AI)
  – Where they overlap
  – Where you’ll still need compensating controls.
  Based on your environment and objectives, we help you shortlist, evaluate and select the right combination.

From risk to mitigation: what we actually help you achieve

Together with your team, we turn abstract “data risk” into concrete, manageable actions:

1. Find and understand your data

• Automated data discovery & classification across cloud, on-prem and AI platforms
• Identification of PII, PHI, IP, financial and other sensitive data
• Mapping of who has access, where data is copied, and which systems are most critical

2. Expose and quantify data-at-risk

• Detection of over-exposed data (public, external, overshared)
• Identification of toxic combinations (e.g. HR + personal IDs + access logs in the same place)
• Clear risk dashboards that link data risk to business impact and compliance obligations

3. Design and guide mitigation

• We help define practical mitigation strategies, such as:
• Rightsizing permissions and removing excessive access
• Segmenting and isolating high-risk data sets
• Introducing tokenisation, encryption and masking where needed
• Cleaning up ROT and dark data and abandoned backups
• Implementing guardrails for AI usage (policies, redaction, safe data sets)
• Integrating DSPM findings into DLP, IAM, SIEM/SOAR so remediation becomes continuous, not one-off

4. Embed DSPM in your operating model

• Defining roles & responsibilities (security, data owners, IT, legal, privacy)
• Aligning with governance frameworks such as ISO 27001 / 27002, NIS2, DORA, etc.
• Setting up KPIs and reporting so you can demonstrate progress to management, auditors and customers

Why e3

• European DSPM specialist – we understand EU regulatory context, data residency and sector-specific expectations.
• Independent & vendor-agnostic – we advise, compare and challenge; we don’t push licences.
• Deep knowledge of DSPM and DLP – so you don’t end up duplicating capabilities or paying twice for the same feature.
• Customer-centric approach – we start from your use cases: reducing breach impact, enabling safe AI, passing audits, reducing ROT/dark data, improving data governance.

Contact us, Lets us help you to get in control