Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention vs. Box Shield

Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention is a highly efficient solution designed to help organizations pinpoint, classify, and protect their sensitive information. It offers valuable insights into the data you handle and store, enabling the creation of dashboards and comprehensive audit reports. By automating the processes of tagging, remediation, or adjusting policies based on the analysis, it significantly improves your data management capabilities. The service's outcomes seamlessly integrate with platforms such as Security Command Center and Data Catalog, and it can also be exported to your own SIEM or governance systems. Users can easily configure data inspection and monitoring, as scheduling inspection tasks directly from the console or streaming data through our API is straightforward, ensuring protection across Google Cloud, on-premises infrastructures, mobile applications, or even competing cloud services. By effectively reducing potential risks, organizations can harness and leverage more data to enhance their operations. Protecting sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII), is crucial for every business. Moreover, implementing de-identification tactics during data migrations, across various workloads, and in real-time data collection and processing enables organizations to manage sensitive information with the highest level of diligence. This comprehensive approach not only bolsters data security but also fosters a culture of responsibility towards data handling throughout the organization.

Shield enables you to sort content based on your specific needs, implementing both manual and automatic approaches. We are excited to present our powerful, integrated feature that identifies personally identifiable information (PII) and customized terminology within documents, categorizing them automatically according to your predefined policies — a significant enhancement for large-scale data protection. By placing controls near your content, you can successfully mitigate data leaks in real-time while providing a smooth experience for end users. You can establish access policies in mere minutes, ensuring that your data remains secure while allowing individuals to perform their critical functions. With the power of machine learning, Shield offers you timely and accurate alerts concerning insider threats, account compromises, and malware occurrences. You can quickly evaluate notifications within Shield or transfer them to your existing tools for further analysis. Shield seamlessly integrates with the leading security solutions you already employ, and alerts, enriched with unique insights, can be connected to your SIEM and CASB, providing a thorough view of your security environment. This seamless integration guarantees that your organization stays alert, proactive, and ready to tackle any security issues that may develop, enabling a fortified defense against potential threats. Furthermore, as security challenges continue to evolve, the adaptability of Shield ensures that your organization is well-equipped to handle future risks effectively.