Are Your Most Critical Files Protected? How Cyera Helps with Deeper Data Insights

As data volumes grow and continue to sprawl, achieving granular visibility and protecting sensitive information has become increasingly challenging. But what if you had complete visibility into every file type and extension across your data estate? Cyera provides this line of sight through advanced data exploration capabilities. Combined with precise classification and rich context, organizations can uncover insights that traditional data security tools can't provide.

Within Cyera, you can gain a comprehensive view of all file types and extensions in your environment. With powerful reporting options, you can quickly zoom in on specific file types or extensions, see where they reside along with other critical details—as well as understand the data they contain. This gives you the visibility needed to manage your data with confidence.

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Let’s look at a few example use cases. 

‍Adherence to Content Storage Policies

When dealing with sensitive content, where and how a file is stored matters. For example, a media company might mandate that all critical video files reside only in specific data stores. Or consider an architecture firm with critical CAD design documents. Enabling an organization to drill down and find these CAD documents or video files provides greater confidence in the storage of their intellectual property. 

‍Data Minimization 

Large, redundant, and unnecessary files can clog your data storage and increase your organization’s attack surface. Cyera empowers you to identify large datastores with excessive files that no longer serve a business purpose—such as a Google Drive of an ex-employee packed with non-essential media files. 

‍Incident Response

Knowing the data affected during a breach is critical. With Cyera, you can quickly assess an incident by identifying if sensitive file types are stored in compromised locations. For example, imagine a compromised datastore housing millions of medical imaging documents, known as DICOM files, or Electronic Health Records, known as EHR files. Visibility to this degree gives you instant clarity, enabling rapid and informed decisions to determine breach materiality and accelerate response.

‍Sensitive Data Investigation

Reporting flexibility is a key capability to meet modern data security needs. Cyera provides in-depth file type and extension filters to empower you with drill-down granularity. With file type and extension breakdowns at your fingertips, you can quickly answer complex questions like: 

• Which datastores have CAD files?
• Which EHR files are accessible to external identities?
• Which unencrypted datastores house .log files?
• And many, many more…

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Combining Context with File Type

When Cyera classifies data, it provides context as well. Is the data related to a person? If so, is it a customer, employee, contractor, or other type of individual? Is the individual an EU citizen? Does the datastore contain sensitive health or financial data? What compliance frameworks apply? 

Now, consider combining this context with file extension visibility. This opens the door to pinpointing risks you may not have otherwise found, such as sensitive financial information that has made its way into a publicly exposed .doc or .csv file. 

Granular Data Visibility with Cyera

Cyera provides greater visibility into your data, giving you new ways to explore your data estate and uncover risks. With data clarity, you gain more control over your security and compliance posture. Cyera makes it easy to find and protect sensitive data, no matter what form it’s in.

Ready to get started? Get a demo and discover how Cyera is redefining data security.

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