Keep sensitive data where it belongs

DLP, database security and GenAI leakage protection - so sensitive data doesn't leave through a chat window.

Data Security Services

Your data doesn't stay where you put it. It moves through email, gets pasted into a GenAI chat window, syncs to a personal device, and sits in a database that was locked down two reorganisations ago. Data security is what keeps that movement from becoming a breach, and in 2026, the fastest-growing risk isn't a hacker breaking in; it's an employee pasting a customer record into an AI prompt.

Vinca Cyber's data security practice protects sensitive information across endpoints, networks, cloud and GenAI workflows, bringing the same 360° Cyber Resilience approach we've applied for 22 years to the data layer specifically, not just the infrastructure around it.

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What is data security?

Data security is the set of controls that protect information from unauthorised access, loss or exposure across its entire lifecycle, while it's stored, while it moves, and while someone is actively using it. It sits alongside, but isn't the same as, data & database security, which focuses specifically on the databases and data stores where structured information lives: access controls, encryption at rest, audit logging and query-level monitoring.

Data security and privacy are related but distinct too - security is about preventing unauthorised access; privacy is about ensuring data is collected, used and retained lawfully and transparently. A mature program addresses both together, since a privacy failure is very often a security failure that simply reached a person's personal data instead of a system.

What is data security?

Our data security services

Every engagement starts with discovery - you can't protect data you don't know you have - and moves to policy design, deployment and tuning, so DLP alerts reflect real risk rather than burying your team in false positives.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Policy-based monitoring and blocking across email, web, cloud apps and endpoints, powered by Forcepoint and Trellix.

GenAI Data Leakage Protection

Visibility into what's being pasted into ChatGPT-style tools and AI agents, and blocking sensitive data before it leaves your perimeter.

Data & Database Security

Access control, encryption and audit logging for the databases where structured data actually lives, using Fortinet DLP alongside database-native controls.

Data Classification & Discovery

Finding and labelling sensitive data (PII, PCI, PHI, IP) across structured and unstructured stores before you can protect it.

Database Security Management

Ongoing configuration review, patching cadence and access-review support for on-prem and cloud database environments.

Common data security gaps we find

The same patterns show up across engagements: sensitive files sitting in shared drives with no access restrictions; database service accounts with far more privilege than any application actually needs; DLP policies that were configured once at rollout and never revisited as new SaaS and AI tools were adopted; and no clear owner for data security and privacy decisions, so requests default to whoever answers the ticket first. None of these require a sophisticated attacker. They're waiting to be found by whoever looks first - attacker or auditor.

Common data security gaps we find

Our process

Our process stages
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Discover

Classify and locate sensitive data across structured and unstructured stores, including GenAI tool usage.

FAQs

Related solutions

These programmes are designed to be operated together. If this page is the strand you need first, the others are usually next.

Cloud Security

CSPM, CNAPP and 24/7 monitoring across AWS, Azure and GCP - posture that doesn't stop at the assessment.

Email Security

SPF, DKIM and DMARC enforcement plus phishing filtering - so your domain can't be spoofed and malicious mail doesn't land.

Endpoint Security

Managed EDR/XDR with 24/7 response - so a phished laptop doesn't become a full network compromise.

Firewall Management

Check Point and Palo Alto NGFW with ongoing policy tuning and 24/7 monitoring up to Layer 3.

Managed WAF

Deployment, rule tuning and 24/7 monitoring - so your WAF stays in blocking mode instead of monitor-only.

Web Security

Secure web gateway, encrypted traffic inspection and web DLP - enforced for every user, anywhere.

Not sure where your sensitive data actually lives, or who can access it?

Talk to Vinca Cyber about a data security assessment covering DLP, database security and GenAI data leakage risk.