Cloud security startup Sentra Inc. today announced the launch of Sentra DataTreks and on-premises support to assist enterprises in tackling rapid data sprawl with stronger security and visibility.

The new capabilities, designed to help determine when sensitive data travels between environments to eliminate unwanted risks and exposures, enhance Sentra’s existing Data Security Posture Management and Data Protection and Response platform by enabling users to address emerging threats and ensure regulatory compliance.

The issue of data sprawl is a well-known one, with Statista predicting that the total global volume of data will hit 181 zettabytes by 2025, up from only 2 zettabytes in 2010. With data continuing to grow rapidly, Sentra argues, the pervasive data sprawl in hybrid environments makes it challenging to protect an organization’s most sensitive data.

Sentra’s platform provides customers with a cybersecurity and risk mitigation solution that provides continuous visibility into data as it moves across the network. The platform tracks movement patterns to identify whether such movement is authorized and ensures the data retains an appropriate security posture, a critical step in protecting it.

“Every day, organizations strive to secure sensitive data by keeping it within carefully defined and secure environments, but given the increasingly rapid proliferation of data, this is not reality,” said Yoav Regev, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sentra. “These two new capabilities address this problem by connecting the dots for security teams who continually evaluate data risks and threats so they can prioritize remediation efforts and ensure regulatory compliance. As a result, security can truly move like data.”

DataTreks gives security teams insight into data similarity and movement across the entire data estate. When combined with other behaviors such as access, security posture and threats, teams can better understand and manage the full effect of sprawl in structured and unstructured data.

Using rich data context, users can investigate flow views in DataTreks by account, by region or by hosting service. Teams can also see exactly where data resides and if it has been duplicated, transformed or moved, allowing for quicker, more accurate risk management decisions to ensure responsive governance, risk and compliance.

Sentra is also extending its cloud-native data security capabilities to classify and detect sensitive data in on-premise environments for file shares and databases. With support for on-premises environments, customers can achieve consistency across their hybrid infrastructures through a unified data catalog for a complete view of assets, posture and risks.

The on-premises expansion supports file shares, including SMB (CIFS), NFS and FTP, and databases, including MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka and Red.

Sentra is a venture capital-backed startup, most recently having raised $30 million Series A in January. Investors in the company include Standard Investments, Munich Re Ventures LLC, Moore Strategic Ventures LLC, Myriad Venture Partners, INT3 Ventures Inc., Bessemer Venture Partners LP and Zeev Ventures LLC.

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