As enterprises rapidly adopt cloud services during digital transformation, protecting cloud data becomes critical. This whitepaper outlines a data-centric cybersecurity framework aligned with NIST to secure cloud-hosted databases, files, and applications. While cloud providers manage hardware, logging, and basic access controls, customers are responsible for data discovery, classification, policy enforcement, threat detection, and audit readiness. The framework emphasizes encryption, anomaly detection, and cross-cloud compliance to meet regulations like GDPR and CPRA. Imperva recommends layering third-party tools to achieve full visibility, control, and protection of sensitive cloud data.

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