Data risk needs more than a resource name
Cloud data security connects supported data stores and storage resources with their environment, exposure, access relationships, configuration findings, and business context. Sensitivity and ownership information depend on the evidence available for the customer scope.
Review data risk in layers
- Identify the data asset, provider scope, environment, owner, and business purpose.
- Review public or network exposure and the identities or services that can reach it.
- Check encryption, access, logging, backup, retention, and configuration evidence that is available.
- Follow related findings and attack paths that could increase the impact of a weakness.
- Keep unassessed sensitivity or incomplete access evidence visible as an unknown.
Choose the next step
Prioritize work when sensitive or important data is exposed through a supported path, when access is broader than intended, or when a control failure increases reachable impact. Verify the source evidence before changing access or classifying data.