Q3 2024 Key Enhancements

📅 Published on: Q3 2024 (September 30, 2024)

🔹Know WHO Has Access to Your Sensitive Data [Data Governance] 🔍 LightBeam’s new Access Governance module enables seamless business productivity with right data and resources accessible to the right users. LightBeam helps you identify and address critical issues like open access (open to the internet), excessive access, questionable access, and cross-departmental access. Organizations can now confidently use GenAI tools like Microsoft Copilot without the worry of excessive access to inappropriate users.

🔹 Labeling in Google G Suite [Data Governance] [AI/ML] 🏷️ LightBeam now seamlessly integrates with Google Labels to ensure you can enforce your organization’s data governance policies. Your organization's preferred DLP (Data Loss Prevention) tool can enforce data exfiltration policies leveraging the labels, and minimize unanticipated data exposure.This integration enables you to automatically categorize your entire information assets within Gdrive.

🔹 Automated Resource Discovery from AWS and GCP [Comprehensive Data Security] [Automated Cloud Discovery] ☁️ Eliminate shadow data, save countless hours with automated discovery of all your resources on AWS and GCP. Now connect your cloud account with LightBeam to get continuous detection and visibility into your cloud environments, ensuring your data is always secure, with zero blind spots.

🔹 Blob Scan Support for Snowflake and Parquet Files [Comprehensive Data Security] [AI/ML] 🔍 Discover and secure all your sensitive data lurking within complex BLOB data types. This game-changing feature adds an extra layer of protection to your data security posture, ensuring more comprehensive coverage of your sensitive data.

🔹 Scan and Detect Sensitive Data in Compressed Files [Comprehensive Data Security] [AI/ML] 📂 Significantly enhance your data protection coverage with the ability to scan and detect sensitive data within compressed files.

🔹 Multi-Variable Policies [Comprehensive Data Security] [Ease of Usage] 📊 Set up data governance policies leveraging more than one sensitivity parameter such as identifiers, labels and classification. This enables you to surface precise high impact issues within your data infrastructure, and improve your security posture with just a few actions.

🔹 Automated Deletion and Archival of Files [Comprehensive Data Security] [Data Lifecycle Management] 🗑️ Tired of spending countless hours managing your ever-proliferating data? Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, optimize storage management, and protect sensitive information by creating flexible data retention policies with built-in automated actions for deletion and archival.

🔹 Consent Management [Data Privacy] 📝 Obtain, track, and manage user consent for data collection and usage. Create multiple preference centers to track granular consents for different types of data or communication. Syncing consents into downstream applications ensures that these preferences are consistently applied across all platforms, helping organizations comply with data privacy regulations.

🔹 Bulk Actions for Data Subject Requests [Data Privacy] ⚡ Implement bulk actions on multiple data subject requests to enhance efficiency and significantly reduce the time required to serve these requests. This includes streamlining processes such as ticket assignment, approvals, rejections, and bulk downloads of reports.

🔹 Audit Logs for User Actions [Ease of Usage] [Audit] 📜 Audit logs for user actions are detailed records that capture and track the activities performed by users within LightBeam. These logs include information such as the type of action taken (e.g., login, data access, modifications), timestamps, and the user’s identity.

🔹 Install LightBeam from Marketplaces like Google, Salesforce, and Dropbox [Ease of Usage] [Marketplace] 🛍️ LightBeam is now available on the Google, Salesforce and Dropbox Marketplaces, enabling you to access a modern and powerful solution for Data Security, Privacy and Governance for your key applications with 1-click simplicity.

🔹 Report for Entities Present in Your System [Ease of Usage] [Reporting] 📊 Download a CSV report from the LightBeam UI that contains the entities present in the system, along with detailed attributes such as Name, Email, Address, and the data sources from which all data is aggregated.