Egnyte
Connecting Egnyte to LightBeam. Egnyte is a cloud-based enterprise file sharing and content management platform that helps organizations store, share, and manage files securely across teams, devices.
Overview
LightBeam Spectra users can connect various data sources to the LightBeam application and these data sources will be continuously monitored for PII, PHI data.
Example: Egnyte, OneDrive, SharePoint, etc.
Connecting Egnyte Data Source
Login to your LightBeam Instance.
Click on "Add Data Source" on the Top Navigation Bar.
Click on “Add a data source”.
Search for “Egnyte”.
Click on Egnyte.
Fill in the requested information and click on Next.
Basic Information required:
Data Source Name: This is the unique name given to the data source.
Add Description: This is an optional field needed to describe the use of this data source.
Primary Owner: Email address of the person responsible for this data source which will get alerts by default.
Entity Creation: LightBeam Spectra detects and associates attributes based on the context and identifies whose data it is; these are called entities. Example: Jane Doe is an entity for whom LightBeam Spectra might have detected Name and SSN in a monitored data source.
Source of Truth: LightBeam Spectra would have monitored data sources that contain data acting as a single point of truth and that can be used for looking up entities/attributes which help to identify if the other attributes/entities found in any other data source are accurate or not. A Source of Truth data set would create entities based on the attributes found in the data.
Location: The location of the data source.
Purpose: The purpose of the data being collected/processed.
Stage: The stage of the data source. Example: Source, Processing, Archival, etc.
Provide the credentials as shown below and click on Test Connection.
Verify that you get the message Connection Success! on the screen. Click on Next.
In this step, you can choose either of three scan setting options –
i) Scan all Folders
ii) Scan selected Folders
To choose option (i), select Scan all Folders, and click on Save.
In option (i) we can select the folders that needs to be excluded from scanning. These folders wouldn't be scanned. Also there's an option to select the "Shared" folders too.
To choose option (ii), select Scan selected folders Now enter the names of the drives that you would like to include for scanning in the Search box individually.
Select the drives by ticking the checkboxes next to them.
Click on Save.
To choose option (iii), select Scan folder.
This is a two-fold process:
To add the drive containing the folder you want to scan, first follow the instructions in option (ii).
Now enter the ID of the folder that you would like to include for scanning in the Search box. ID can be found the folder URL. Example: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/<Folder_ID>
Click on Save.
Now we are ready to browse through onboarded Egnyte data source dashboard.
Appendix
This API key will use permissions of service account/User(Not sure as not access of key) for authentication.
If User/serviceAccount is of type Administrator which will have all permissions for all shared and private folders
If User/serviceAccount is of type power user It will have all permissions for personal folder of that User and Documents files in Shared folder and other subfolder which are given access of poweruser.
We can’t restrict permissions at administrator Users. We will need to use powerUser and assign
Selected permissions like mentioned below for every folder
Select the folder and click on permissions
Enter the all powerusers or selected user email
Click on permissions you want to assign
We can not assign permissions to power users for private folders
About LightBeam
LightBeam automates Privacy, Security, and AI Governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets. Leveraging generative AI, LightBeam has rapidly gained customers’ trust by pioneering a unique privacy-centric and automation-first approach to security. Unlike siloed solutions, LightBeam ties together sensitive data cataloging, control, and compliance across structured and unstructured data applications providing 360-visibility, redaction, self-service DSRs, and automated ROPA reporting ensuring ultimate protection against ransomware and accidental exposures while meeting data privacy obligations efficiently. LightBeam is on a mission to create a secure privacy-first world helping customers automate compliance against a patchwork of existing and emerging regulations.
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