Security Teams
Reduce Data Risk. Prevent Disruption. Strengthen Ransomware Resilience.
CTERA helps security teams reduce risk and maintain defensible control across distributed environments. By embedding governance, integrity safeguards, and resilience into the data platform, CTERA supports a prevention-first security posture while improving audit readiness and response confidence.
Why Security Needs a New Approach
Unstructured data represents one of the largest and least controlled areas of enterprise risk. As data spreads across locations, endpoints, and clouds, fragmented tools and inconsistent policies become harder to manage. The result is greater exposure, slower response, and increased difficulty proving compliance.
Common challenges:
Controls vary across locations and systems, creating gaps and policy drift
Sensitive data is difficult to locate, classify, and govern consistently
Ransomware readiness relies on uneven protection practices and manual workflows
Audit preparation becomes a recurring fire drill due to scattered evidence
Security initiatives stall when controls creates operational friction
What Security Teams Need
Security teams need a control model that reduces exposure without slowing the organization or expanding tool sprawl.
CTERA is designed to support:
- A governance framework that remains consistent as data spreads across environments
- Integrity safeguards that preserve trust in critical and regulated data
- Centralized oversight that supports investigations, reporting, and audit defensibility
- Support for cloud, hybrid, and fully on-premises deployments to meet data sovereignty, accreditation, and regulatory requirements
- A resilience approach that strengthens posture without disrupting access
How CTERA Delivers for Security
CTERA embeds governance, protection, and compliance capabilities directly into the data platform, helping security teams reduce risk and respond with confidence when incidents occur. The platform supports cloud, hybrid, and fully on-premises deployments, so organizations retain control over data location, compliance posture, and security boundaries.
Consistent Governance Across Distributed Environments
Apply access and policy controls centrally to reduce drift, close gaps, and maintain defensible enforcement as data moves across locations.
Ransomware Risk Reduction with Built-In Resilience
Limit the conditions ransomware exploits through stronger governance and integrated protection, supporting predictable response and recovery.
Data Integrity Protection for Critical Information
Use tamper-resistant safeguards to reduce the risk of unauthorized modification and support integrity requirements for sensitive records.
Centralized Oversight for Response and Investigation
Improve visibility across environments to support incident investigation, security reviews, and ongoing operational control.
Audit Readiness as a Result of Strong Control
Simplify audits by reducing the number of systems and manual steps required to demonstrate policy enforcement and data handling practices.
Security Validation and Compliance
CTERA supports environments with strict security and accreditation requirements, including compliance with standards such as FIPS 140-3 and inclusion on the DoDIN APL, enabling deployment in highly regulated and defense-aligned environments without compromising operational control.
High-Impact Starting Points for Security Teams
Security teams often begin in focused areas where inconsistent controls or limited visibility create outsized risk. These entry points help teams improve defensibility quickly while establishing patterns that scale.
- Ransomware Readiness for High-Impact DataStrengthen governance and integrity protections for a defined set of critical data to reduce blast radius and improve recovery confidence.
- Governance Standardization for a Specific Scope Apply consistent controls to a targeted domain, region, or environment before expanding across the organization.
- Sensitive Data Visibility and Classification Improve understanding of where sensitive data resides to support risk reduction, compliance efforts, and investigations.
- Reducing Policy Drift in Hybrid Environments Bring selected systems or locations under centralized control to eliminate gaps caused by inconsistent enforcement.
- Audit and Investigation Workflows Improve evidence consistency and oversight for a specific audit scope or regulatory requirement.
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