Komprise announced new sensitive data detection and mitigation
capabilities to help organizations prevent the leakage of PII and other
sensitive data to AI and reduce the risk of potentially ruinous data breaches.
Komprise Smart Data Workflow Manager now includes detection for PII, regular
expressions and keywords to simplify and automate the process of finding and
tagging sensitive data and moving it to protected locations.
IT teams dread
the risks of sensitive data lurking where it shouldn't be -- risks that are
compounding as unstructured data grows explosively across all industries. GenAI
popularity has made the situation more troublesome. Attempts to input PII into
GenAI platforms represent over half (55%) of data loss prevention (DLP) events,
followed by confidential documents (40%), according to 2024 research by Menlo Security. The global average cost of
a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, according to
IBM. Increasingly, storage administrators are responsible for data
governance and compliance but lack ways to do this systematically across their
data estate.
The new
sensitive data management capabilities of Komprise Smart Data Workflow Manager include:
- Standard PII detection: Select which PII data types to scan for such as
national IDs, credit card numbers and email addresses. Komprise supports
multiple classifications to identify multiple types of PII within any
given file.
- Custom Sensitive Data Detection: Customers can find any text patterns in their data via
both keyword and regular expressions (regex) search to identify specific
data formats like employee IDs, machine or instrument IDs, product or
project codes, or even PHI data like healthcare-system specific patient
record IDs.
- Scans Sensitive Data in Place: Executes locally behind enterprise firewalls so
sensitive data stays in place, unlike cloud-based data detection services.
- Remediate and Move: Once Komprise identifies sensitive data, users can set
up a workflow to take appropriate action, such as confining the data or
moving the data to a safe location.
- Pre-Process for AI Ingest: Sensitive data detection can be a pre-process step for
an AI ingest workflow to eliminate sensitive data leakage to AI.
- Ongoing Workflow: Users can set workflows to run periodically, so
Komprise automatically finds and acts on any new sensitive data for
ongoing detection, tagging and mitigation, with full audit capabilities.
Common
use cases for the new sensitive data detection capabilities include:
- Prevent Unintended Data Leakage during AI Ingest: Data governance for AI remains a top priority. Komprise
automates the workflow of identifying and excluding sensitive data from
the data copied to AI, thus preventing human error and risky data leakage
during AI ingestion.
- Sensitive Data Handling for Cyber-Resilience: Roughly 80% of data breaches involve sensitive data,
according to Verizon's Data Breach Investigations report and other
sources. This is especially risky in regulated industries such as
healthcare and finance where organizations face hefty penalties. By automating
the process of finding sensitive data in non-compliant places and
proactively remediating by moving this data to secure storage,
organizations can reduce the risk of sensitive data breaches.
- AI Data Workflow Auditing: Komprise maintains a full audit record of all data
processed by any workflow, such as a workflow copying data to a location
for ingestion by an AI or ML system.
"Komprise has
continuously impressed me with their ability to add valuable features to the
product," says Jonathan Kowall, Director of Specialist Solutions Engineers at AHEAD. "With the new PII capabilities, storage admins get
an extremely powerful feature on top of an already impressive tool. Storage
teams are challenged to do more with less and features like these are why we
are proud to partner with Komprise."
"The risk of
sensitive data breaches is escalating and thereby paralyzing organizations from
using AI," says Kumar K. Goswami, CEO of Komprise. "We are pleased to
systematically reduce sensitive data risks so that our customers can improve
their cybersecurity and provide data governance for AI ingestion with the new
sensitive data detection and mitigation capabilities in Komprise Smart Data
Workflows Manager."