The enterprise data protection market is undergoing a significant shift. archTIS is paving the way.
Organizations today face a common challenge: sensitive data is everywhere. It lives across collaboration platforms, endpoints, databases, SaaS applications, and cloud storage systems. Employees and partners need to access and share information quickly, often across teams, organizations, and even countries. At the same time, regulatory requirements, security mandates, and privacy obligations demand stronger protection for sensitive data.
A recent industry analysis by EM360Tech examining The Top 10 Enterprise Data Protection Tools highlights how organizations are increasingly turning to technologies that can discover and classify sensitive data across complex environments.
archTIS’ Spirion Sensitive Data Manager (SDM) solution was recognized for helping organizations understand where their sensitive information resides and how exposed it may be, as well as its remediation capabilities, to support organizations that need stronger privacy controls, clearer data accountability, and fewer hidden exposures.
That visibility is essential. But as EM360 emphasized in its review, discovery is only the first step. The real challenge begins after sensitive data has been identified: How do you control how that data is accessed and shared?
EMC 360’s recommendation was to look for a comprehensive platform that provides:
- Sensitive data discovery that can scan all of your repositories for sensitive data from on-prem databases, cloud storage, and SaaS applications to endpoints.
- Data classification and labelling that can accurately label data using patterns and context.
- Policy-driven encryption and tokenisation to apply file-level protection that stays with the data wherever it lives or travels.
- Data loss prevention (DLP) across your collaboration stack to enforce policies in real time.
- User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to detect unusual user activity.
- Integration hooks for workflow automation, such as sending events into your security tooling, triggering response playbooks, or applying labels and controls in the systems your teams already use.
- Compliance reporting and audit logs to track user interactions without manually looking for a paper trail.
- Flexible Deployment options to support how your business operates with cloud-native, on-prem, or hybrid, and seamless integration with your existing identity providers, collaboration platforms, and security stack.
- Enterprise-scale management with strong access controls, phased rollout support, and the ability to scan and monitor large volumes of data.
This is where the combination of archTIS’ Spirion and NC Protect solutions creates a powerful opportunity for organizations to strengthen their data protection and governance strategies.
The Growing Need for Data-Centric Security
Traditional cybersecurity models focused on protecting networks, endpoints, and infrastructure. But as organizations have adopted cloud platforms and modern collaboration tools, those boundaries have become less meaningful.
Today, security is increasingly centered on protecting the data itself.
Sensitive information may move between users, applications, and systems dozens of times a day. Files may be shared internally, with partners, or across international teams. AI tools and automated workflows may access enterprise data in ways that were not possible just a few years ago.
This reality means organizations must not only know where sensitive data exists but also control how it is used and shared.
Data-centric security enables this by placing security around the data itself, protecting it with access controls, encryption, and audit trails. This approach ensures that if a breach occurs at the perimeter, the data remains the ultimate line of defense.
Spirion SDP & SDM: Understanding Where Sensitive Data Lives
Spirion has built a strong reputation as a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution, helping organizations discover and classify sensitive data across distributed environments.
Using the Spirion data discovery and classification platform, organizations can:
- Discover sensitive data across endpoints, databases, and cloud storage
- Automatically classify information based on regulatory or risk frameworks
- Identify where sensitive information may be overexposed
- Use automated playbooks for remediation actions (destroy and quarantine)
- Strengthen governance and compliance efforts
For many organizations, the Spirion platform provides the first clear picture of their enterprise data footprint.
Customers often discover sensitive information in locations they did not expect—such as unmanaged file shares, legacy databases, or employee devices. This visibility is a critical step toward reducing risk and improving compliance.
But once that data has been discovered, the next question naturally arises:
How should access to that data be controlled?
NC Protect: Controlling Access to Sensitive Data
archTIS’ NC Protect addresses the next phase of the data protection lifecycle: governing how sensitive information is accessed and shared.
NC Protect uses Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) policies to dynamically determine who can access data and under what conditions. Instead of relying solely on static permissions, access decisions can take into account contextual factors such as:
- User role or responsibility
- Security clearance or authorization level
- Organization or team membership
- Device security posture
- Location or network environment
This allows organizations to enforce policies that ensure sensitive information is accessible only to the right people at the right time.
Importantly, these policies are applied in real time whenever a user requests access to a file, allowing access decisions to adapt dynamically as conditions change. For example, a user may be able to access a file on a company laptop but be denied access to it on their mobile device.
This capability is especially valuable in environments where information must be shared across departments, organizations, or partners while maintaining strict control over sensitive data.
Bringing Discovery and Control Together
Individually, Spirion and NC Protect each address critical aspects of modern data protection.
Together, they create a comprehensive solution for data governance and protection.
Spirion identifies and classifies sensitive data across the enterprise. NC Protect then ensures that access to that data is governed by dynamic policies.
This combination enables organizations to move through a complete data protection lifecycle:
Discover → Classify → Enforce → Govern
For customers already using Spirion, integrating NC Protect provides a powerful way to extend discovery capabilities into real-time control of sensitive information across their Microsoft stack.
For organizations using NC Protect, Spirion expands visibility into where sensitive data resides, allowing policies to be applied more effectively.
The result is a more comprehensive data-centric security strategy.
Supporting Secure Collaboration
Many organizations today face a tension between two competing priorities.
On one hand, employees need to collaborate quickly and share information freely to get work done. On the other hand, security teams must ensure sensitive data remains protected and compliant with regulatory requirements.
The combined capabilities of Spirion and NC Protect help organizations balance these needs.
Sensitive information can still be shared where appropriate, but policies ensure that access remains aligned with security and compliance requirements.
For example, organizations can:
- Prevent sensitive data from being shared outside authorized teams or partners
- Restrict access to sensitive information based on multiple factors, not just role
- Ensure guest users only see the information relevant to their work
- Maintain consistent security policies across collaboration platforms and enterprise systems
This approach enables collaboration while maintaining strong governance over sensitive data.
A More Complete Data Protection Strategy
As enterprise environments continue to evolve, organizations need security approaches that address both visibility and control.
Spirion provides deep insight into where sensitive data exists across the organization. NC Protect ensures that access to that data is governed by dynamic policies that adapt to changing conditions.
Together, these capabilities allow organizations to move beyond simply identifying risk toward actively managing and controlling sensitive information.
- For existing Spirion customers, NC Protect represents a natural next step in strengthening data protection by adding policy-driven control.
- For NC Protect customers, Spirion expands visibility into the enterprise data landscape, enabling more informed and effective security policies.
By bringing these capabilities together, archTIS is helping organizations take a more comprehensive approach to protecting, governing, and securely sharing sensitive data.
