These solutions either focus on infrastructure security a la misconfigurations(CSPM), vulnerabilities (CWPP) or access issues (CIEM). Normalyze focuses on identifying sensitive data in your environment first and connects all the dots around it to determine the likelihood of risk – misconfigurations, elevated access and permissions across accounts, vulnerabilities, etc. – that could lead to compromise of sensitive data. Without the data insights you end up with a high number of alerts from various tools that are not actionable and will be difficult to prioritize.
Data discovery solutions are focused mainly on scanning data to categorize it against certain regulatory frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA and GDPR. They act as recommendation engines rather than enforcement as they don’t bring any context about the environment where the sensitive data resides, who has access to it and what type of access, config or vulns is associated with it. Normalyze is a technology platform that brings it all together so you can discover and classify data then enforce remediation based on risk and attack paths that can lead to sensitive data. If you have built data catalogs in other tools, Normalyze can import these data catalogs and use them while scanning cloud data stores to help you classify sensitive data based on these custom catalogs.
In short,
Normalyze = Data discovery + Data classification + CIEM + CSPM + CNAPP
Normalyze works out of the box and provides a better alternative to doing it yourselves by integrating multiple capabilities instead of amalgamating a solution by multiple vendors.