Despite its benefits, DSPM also presents important technological challenges, including:
Lack of unified context: DSPM, when offered as a standalone solution, lacks wide risk visibility into the cloud estate. This leads to an incomplete awareness of the factors that may put sensitive data at risk, such as API misconfigurations, workload vulnerabilities, or other cloud misconfigurations.
Tool sprawl: Standalone DSPM solutions require organizations to purchase additional cloud security solutions for complete coverage. This forces security teams to use and manage a siloed solution, decreasing productivity through inefficiencies and duplicative work, while increasing licensing costs.
Legacy solutions: Organizations may rely on data loss prevention (DLP) tools for their DSPM needs. As a legacy solution originally designed for on-prem environments, DLP provides a limited inventory of sensitive data and where it lives in the cloud, requiring security teams to manually classify data to prevent data leakage.
In contrast, as a CNAPP, Orca combines DSPM, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM and more in a single platform, and provides full-stack visibility of your cloud estate—that is, visibility that spans the cloud infrastructure, OS, application, and data layers—ensuring you have complete security and compliance coverage.