How Sentra Enables Global-e to Reduce Cloud Data Risks and Storage Costs in AWS

Overview

Global-e is a leading global e-commerce enabler that provides a single platform for merchants to sell their products to end customers around the world. The company has a strong commitment to security and compliance, and it is required to comply with a number of strict regulations, including PCI DSS and SOC2.

The Challenge

A common, yet key challenge facing most e-commerce providers today, is to keep their customer and company cloud data secured against bad actors. Global-e runs their main data and services infrastructure on AWS, and was seeking a data security solution that would provide visibility into its AWS data storage services to easily identify and remediate potential data related risks.  

Sentra’s Solution and Unique Approach

Global-e implemented Sentra to automatically discover, classify, assess, and prioritize the risks of their most sensitive and business critical cloud data. They found Sentra's solution easy to use, scalable, and started to see valuable data insights and results within hours. Sentra’s scanning technology, quickly and accurately discovers all sensitive data resources, enabling Global-e to quickly and proactively identify and remediate issues.

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Sentra helps Global-e to protect its data by:

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• Automated Data Discovery and Classification: All sensitive data resources are detected and assigned a sensitivity score. This enables Global-e to understand where their most sensitive data is stored, and prioritize their security efforts to tackle the most important and business critical resources, saving time and increasing efficiency and productivity.  
• Prioritized Risk Assessment and Scoring: Sentra uses machine learning to identify potential risks empowering Global-e to proactively remediate.  
• Policy Enforcement: Sentra helps Global-e to efficiently and accurately enforce its data security policies in AWS, ensuring that the data is always protected and secure, regardless of who is accessing it.

From a single platform, and within hours, Sentra gains a comprehensive understanding of who has access to sensitive data, how it is being used, and the health of the security posture. Global-e gains a clear and prioritized view of all their sensitive data assets with the ability to drill down deeply into specific issues. What’s more, Sentra ensures that the correct security posture moves with Global-e’s sensitive data by automatically detecting vulnerabilities and ensuring more effective and faster remediation and compliance adherence.

Impact

Since implementing Sentra, Global-e has seen significant improvements in the strength of its data security posture. The company is now able to protect its cloud data more effectively, saving its security, IT, DevOps and engineering teams time, and ensuring it remains compliant with regulatory requirements.

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Sentra has enabled Global-e to:

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• Reduce the risk of data breaches. 
• Identify and remediate potential risks, protecting its infrastructure and customer data from attackers and bad actors.
• Reduce data storage costs of unused shadow data as a result of Sentra's automated risk assessment and policy enforcement features. Global-e proactively removed its unused shadow data, preventing it from becoming a costly problem.

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