Data Privacy & Protection

Solutions

Data Privacy and Protection involve safeguarding an organization's digital and physical information to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability across the data lifecycle. This encompasses handling individuals' personal data with care, extending to broader aspects like data immutability, preservation, and destruction, employing both traditional and advanced security tools. Data security involves protecting organization’s crown jewels including Intellectual Property (IP), Protected Health Information (PHI), Payment Card Industry (PCI) related data and more. The risks to organization’s data including accidental exposure, ransomware, and insider threats, necessitate strategic measures for combatting these challenges.

With data growing at an unprecedented rate and businesses relying more on data for AI adoption, ensuring privacy and protection becomes indispensable. Modern businesses' survival and growth hinge on robust data security, safeguarding critical assets and sensitive information. GBM Shield addresses these challenges by providing comprehensive data protection strategies—from sensitive data discovery and classification to mapping the data journey, data loss prevention, encryption, and key management. Through a blend of careful adaptation of new models and technology, GBM Shield aims to equip organizations with holistic data protection, considering current and upcoming data privacy and security regulations in the GCC region as well as across globe to facilitate compliance and security.

DATA PRIVACY & PROTECTION

Cloud Data Discovery and Classification
Cloud Data Encryption and Key Management
Security Service Edge (SSE)
Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud Security Maturity Assessment

Open Access Identification, Governance and Remediation
ISO 27701 PIMS Assessment
Data Privacy Operations Design
Third Party Vendor Assessment
Data Breach Management

Data Classification Consultancy
Data Flow Analysis
Data Security Assessment and Review
Data Protection Strategy
DPIA / PIA

Sensitive Data Discovery
Data Classification and Labelling
Data Loss Prevention
Digital Rights Management
Data Security Posture Management

Database Vulnerability Assessment
On-Premises and Multi-cloud DAM
Database Access Firewall
Database Threat Analytics
Database Security Policy and Compliance Design

Encryption / Masking / Tokenization
Public Key Infrastructure
Key Lifecycle Management
Confidential Computing
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Quantum Safe Cryptography

Data Consulting Services

One of the core pillars of the GBM Shield Data Privacy and Protection includes the Data Consulting Services. The Data consulting team includes experienced data security consultants with rich skill set to help organizations build Data Protection Strategies, enhance Data Classification Frameworks, carry out Data Risk Assessments and provide Data Security advisories. The Data Consulting exercise heavily relies on human interaction with different stakeholders and departments in the organization which is seamlessly handled by our Arabic and English-speaking consultants. The Data Consulting Services can be included as a standalone service as well as bundled with different data security initiatives.

Data Security Posture Management

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is data security approach and toolset that enables organizations to gain complete visibility into sensitive data location across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments, how it is classified, and who can access it. By continuously analyzing data exposure, misconfigurations, excessive user permissions, and encryption gaps, DSPM helps identify and prioritize the most critical data risks based on business impact. GBM Shield’s integrated approach combines DSPM with proven data security controls such as Data Classification, Data Loss Prevention, and Digital Rights Management to deliver proactive protection, simplify regulatory compliance, and support secure digital transformation and AI adoption through centralized, data-centric security governance.

Database Protection

While organizations often prioritize perimeter security, databases remain the core repositories of sensitive business data and are highly vulnerable to both internal misuse and external attacks. Effective protection requires security controls deployed close to the data itself. GBM Shield delivers a comprehensive database security approach that includes sensitive data discovery and classification, vulnerability assessment, entitlement management, database activity monitoring, and database firewall capabilities, enhanced by AI and ML driven threat detection and prevention. This integrated offering helps to not only strengthens overall database security posture but also streamlines audit and compliance.

Cryptography

Data encryption is a critical security control, especially with the growing threat of ransomware attacks. It protects sensitive information by converting readable data into ciphertext that can only be accessed by authorized users with the appropriate decryption keys. However, implementing an “encrypt everything, everywhere” approach can be challenging due to the complexity of modern IT environments. GBM Shield helps organizations design a practical encryption strategy by defining the right scope of encryption, selecting appropriate algorithms, and implementing strong key and certificate lifecycle management with secure key storage in Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and support for confidential computing to protect data even while in use. It also incorporates quantum-safe cryptography—advanced cryptographic algorithms designed to remain secure against the future capabilities of quantum computers—ensuring organizations adopt a comprehensive and future-ready approach to data protection.

Data Privacy Operations Management

In response to evolving data privacy laws and regulations across the GCC region, organizations must increasingly ensure compliance while strengthening governance over their data. These regulations require capabilities such as asset and data discovery, data subject access rights, cookie consents, records of processing activity and more. It is also important to align existing security controls—such as data classification and data loss prevention—with these regulatory requirements. GBM Shield helps organizations navigate these complexities by understanding regional regulations and recommending tailored approaches to implement privacy controls while ensuring effective governance and protection of organizational data.

Cloud Data Security

With increasing cloud adoption and rapid data growth, data security can no longer be limited to traditional on-premises environments. Organizations must extend their data security strategies to protect data stored across cloud platforms, where the dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure requires flexible and comprehensive security controls. Technologies such as Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), and Security Service Edge (SSE) play a key role in strengthening cloud data protection. GBM Shield helps organizations enhance their cloud data security posture by recommending the right controls and architectures, taking into account the organization’s cloud infrastructure while also aligning with existing investments in on-premises data security solutions.