Q4 2024 Key Enhancements

📅 Published on: Q4 2024 (December 31, 2024)

🔹 Expanded Sensitive Data Protection with Support for Four New Enterprise Applications [Comprehensive Data Security]

🔍 LightBeam extends its sensitive data protection capabilities to four additional data sources:

• Google Cloud Storage: Reduced risk radius on the cloud with comprehensive sensitive data discovery and protection in Google Cloud Storage

• Databricks: Enhanced centralized data visibility, security and governance with automated sensitive data discovery and protection for the Unity Catalog in your Databricks warehouses

• Confluence: Automatically unearth and protect all your sensitive data lurking within Confluence pages

• SAP HANA: Seamless detection and protection of sensitive data stored in your SAP HANA databases.

🔹 Custom Attribute Detection [Comprehensive Data Security] [Data Governance] [AI/ML] 🎯 Make data protection as unique as your data! LightBeam now allows custom attribute (data element) creation and detection, enabling organizations to:

• Define specific attributes for automatic detection across all data sources.

• Use these attributes in policies, providing maximum flexibility to identify and address high-impact issues, unique to the data environment, with precision.

🔹 Advanced Policy Parameters for Retention Policies [Lifecycle Management] [AI/ML] [Playbooks] 📜 Set up retention policies based on dates within documents! Define rules based on contract dates, sales dates, start dates, and end dates, which are:

• Automatically extracted from documents.

• Validated against predefined policy criteria for enforcement.

🔹 Improved Reporting [Reporting] [Ease of Usage]

📊 Enhanced reporting capabilities with:

• Object Insights Report:– Generate CSV reports containing detailed insights for each data source.

• Bulk downloads available for the following report types in the PrivacyOps module:

  • Privacy Assessments

  • ROPA (Records of Processing Activities)

  • Data Subject Requests Reports

🔹 Future-Proof Scanning with “Scan All” for Databases [Comprehensive Data Security] [Ease of Use]

🛡️ No database left behind! With the “Scan All” option, LightBeam ensures:

• Automatic scanning of all current and future databases upon onboarding.

• Zero blind spots with 100% discovery coverage, today and every day thereafter.

🔹 Out-of-the-Box Labels [Data Governance]

🏷️ Predefined labels for PCI, PHI, and PII data allow:

• Easy categorization of sensitive documents.

• Customization of labels by specifying attributes and classification types.

🔹 Automated Data Subject Request (DSR) Management [Data Privacy] [Ease of Use]

⚡ End-to-end automation for Data Subject Requests (DSRs):

• Custom workflows per request type, with optional manual steps.

• Seamless execution from request submission to report sharing—no manual intervention required!

🔹 Targeted Enhanced Settings for DSR Management [Data Privacy] [Ease of Use]

🔎 Optimize Data Subject Request (DSR) management by:

• Assigning default owners for each request type (e.g., Access, Erasure).

• Configuring relevant data sources in the DSR workflow to focus on databases likely to contain subject data. This ensures more precise detection, faster resolution, and automated request closure.

🔹 Comprehensive Search and Filters for DSRs [Data Privacy] [Ease of Use]

🔍 Easily locate specific Data Subject Requests with new filters, including:

• Due Date

• Date Created

• Request ID

• Data Subject Name

• Data Subject Email ID

• Assignee

🔹 Dynamic DSR Forms [Data Privacy] [Ease of Use]

📄 Customize Data Subject Request (DSR) forms with:

• Conditional logic – Enable, disable, hide, or show questions based on responses.

• Personalized forms based on location, request type, or other criteria.

🔹 Advanced Sub-Domain Detection for Cookie Scanning [Data Privacy] [Cookie Consent]

🍪 Automatically detect sub-domains for cookie scanning, with options to:

• Include or exclude specific pages, paths, and sub-domains based on your requirements.

🔹 Greater Precision and Reliability for Cookie Consent Management [Data Privacy] [Cookie Consent]

🍪 Enhance cookie compliance with improved accuracy and control:

• Identify and resolve categorization discrepancies for more precise and reliable cookie consent management.

• Store and load cookie banner and preference center scripts directly from your AWS S3 location, ensuring full control and zero downtime.

🔹 Previews for More File Types [Comprehensive Data Security] [Ease of Use]

📂 View sensitive files directly in the LightBeam UI with expanded support for:

• .xlsx

• .doc

• .csv

• .txt

• .log