Netskope vs Symmetry Systems

About Symmetry Systems

Symmetry Systems sells a Data + AI Security Platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and monitors sensitive data. Symmetry Systems says its AI-powered platform covers all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, on-premise data stores, legacy systems, and airgapped environments. Symmetry Systems lists mainframes among the on-premise data stores where its platform secures data. Symmetry Systems says organizations use its platform to eliminate unnecessary data and remove excessive permissions.^[1][3]

Symmetry Systems describes AI agents that authenticate via shared service accounts which IAM treats as trusted infrastructure. Symmetry Systems fuses its customers' data estate with their full identity graph, covering humans, service accounts, AI agents, and third-party vendors. Symmetry Systems says its data model treats AI agents as first-class principals with their own identity, access graph, scope policies, and audit trail.^[4]

Symmetry Systems continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Symmetry Systems uses AI-powered scanning to identify PII, PHI, financial data, and secrets with hundreds of built-in classifiers. Symmetry Systems revokes excess permissions, quarantines exposed files, and enforces least-privilege policies automatically. DataEnforce automatically remediates misconfigurations, revokes excess permissions, and enforces policy. Symmetry Systems surfaces exfiltration, insider threats, and abnormal AI access. Symmetry Systems says its platform automates sensitive data discovery, classification, access monitoring, and risk scoring for databases, data lakes, files, and more. Symmetry Systems describes capabilities for discovering, classifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive data across databases, data lakes, and file shares. Symmetry Systems says its DSPM provides continuous verification of data activities to validate controls, assess policy adherence, and prove compliance. DataGuard is a data security product from Symmetry Systems.^{[1][4][5][6][7][8]}

Symmetry Systems deploys within a customer's AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI or on-prem environment via IaC. Symmetry Systems offers separate instances per region. Symmetry Systems offers a deployment in which Symmetry manages the control plane and classification compute runs inside the customer's VPC or on-prem network. Symmetry Systems can run fully isolated with no external network dependency. Symmetry Systems describes an air-gapped DSPM for defense, federal, and healthcare environments. Symmetry Systems offers a managed service for data security. Symmetry Systems has a partner program for MSSPs. Symmetry Systems says it helps federal agencies and contractors automate data discovery, classification, monitoring, and reporting across cloud and on-premises environments.^{[4][9][10][11]}

Symmetry Systems, Inc successfully completed the AICPA Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 audit. Symmetry Systems stores each customer environment within a dedicated trust zone. Symmetry Systems encrypts data at rest and in transmission. Symmetry Systems uses unique encryption keys to separate each customer's data from its own. Employees and contractors of Symmetry Systems, Inc. undergo background checks before they are engaged or employed. Symmetry Systems, Inc. deploys penetration testing and vulnerability scanning of all production and Internet facing systems on a regular basis. Symmetry Systems implements role-based access controls and the principles of least privileged access.^[1][2][4][8]