Sentra vs Legacy Data Security Solutions

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Why Enterprises Choose Sentra over Legacy Data Security Solutions

The Sentra Difference

Sentra’s Scalable, Cloud-Native Data Security Platform The Fastest, Most Accurate DSP

Sentra’s AI-powered classification engine installs in minutes, and can scan and classify petabytess of data in just days. Easily customize your policies and adapt Sentra to your organization’s proprietary data classes.

>95%

accuracy in detecting PII, PCI, PHI, secrets and more

Legacy Solutions:

Take Weeks to Scan, Less Accurate, Difficult to Deploy

  • Takes months to connect and become operational
  • Scans based on regular expressions, creating false positives
  • Can’t alert on real-time threats to sensitive data
  • Confuses real and synthetic data (and other types!)
Security Use-Cases Sentra's Data Security Platform Legacy or Other Data Security Platforms
Data Exposures Rich context helps automatically map real exposures, such as shadow data, to compliance frameworks. Alerts on many false positives due to missing context. Does not help to reduce the data attack surface.
Flexible Policy Engine Allows users to easily create custom policies that match their security programs. Limited policies that do not allow to express security team requirements.
Flexible Policy Engine Data-aware detection of suspicious data access/activity.
Stop data breaches in
the cloud.

Cloud DLP built for cloud-native attack. 		Does not detect data-aware threats in data lakes and databases in IaaS and PaaS.
Data Similarity and Perimeters Automatically detects when data moves and travels across designated data stores and data perimeters. Does not provide any detection when data is being duplicated or copied across zones.
Secure and Responsible AI Extends protection to GenAI/LLM applications, for strong risk posture and secure training sets, prompts, and outputs. Many tools do not support AI services (within cloud providers).
Platform Overview Sentra's Data Security Platform Legacy or Other Data Security Platforms
Time to Value Install quickly in minutes. Immediate value. 9-12 Months to be fully operational in large environments.
Scanning Architecture Agentless, continuous and autonomous data discovery across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Includes known and unknown data. 		Limited discovery requires agents and network connectivity. Can not discover unknown (shadow) data.
Low Operational Cost at Petabyte Scale 100-1000x faster and more compute efficient. Scans dozens of petabytes in a week using advanced ML-based clustering and sampling. Very expensive and compute intensive. Limited scalability. Scan costs are 10-100X higher compared to Sentra.
Robust Scan Settings Highly customizable scans. Enterprise-ready. Too simplistic. No options to customize different scanning strategies.
Data Classification Sentra's Data Security Platform Legacy or Other Data Security Platforms
Automatic and Accurate Keeps pace with >95% accuracy in detecting PII, PCI, PHI, secrets and more.
AI-powered classification. 		Manual. Relies on regular expressions and customer-specific rules which create many FPs.
Context Rich Deep context on the data's business use, data residency, data security, and more. Missing critical context required by security, such as whether the data is real or synthetic.

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What They’re Saying About Sentra

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When sensitive data in our cloud data stores is duplicated or moved by engineers, we can now understand if that causes any security or compliance issues
The POC was incredible and going forward we feel this is crucial and somewhat irreplaceable for us
Agentless data classification from Sentra has been a huge help, now we can auto-classify sensitive data and prevent this data from being extracted