Forcepoint announced significant enhancements to its AI-native Data Security Cloud platform, central to which is the introduction of ARIA, the Adaptive Risk Intelligence Assistant.
This new embedded tool is designed to use natural language to rapidly create enforcement policies and accelerate incident response across the increasingly AI-driven workflows prevalent in modern enterprises.
The imperative for such advancements is clear: a recent World Economic Forum report cited by Forcepoint indicated that 66% of organisations believe AI will have the most significant impact on cybersecurity in the coming year, yet most lack formal processes to assess this emerging risk.
As sensitive information is created, transformed, and shared at machine speed across cloud platforms and collaboration tools, the gap between data visibility and control is widening.
Forcepoint’s "Self-Aware Data Security" approach seeks to close this gap by adapting policies and risk scoring in real time, enforcing controls wherever data flows. The updates aim to eliminate reliance on static policies or routing traffic through remote proxies, allowing enforcement to keep pace with AI-driven work.
The Data Security Cloud unifies several functions—including DSPM, DLP Cloud, DDR, Web and Email security, CASB, RBI, and advanced forensics—under a single-policy framework that spans from the endpoint to the cloud.
“AI has made data a living, breathing thing, permanently changing how information ripples through organisations and demanding true visibility and control that moves just as fast,” said Ryan Windham, CEO of Forcepoint.
Key innovations include:
- Forcepoint Adaptive Risk Intelligence Assistant (ARIA): This assistant understands risk across the platform, identifies coverage gaps (such as newly adopted AI copilots without policies), and generates recommended, rationale-backed policies in seconds. It also integrates with tools like ServiceNow and Slack to streamline incident response.
- Next-generation data security everywhere agent: This new endpoint agent provides adaptive protection and web intelligence directly on the device, inspecting data locally without forcing traffic through a remote proxy. It enforces protection for sanctioned AI apps while blocking sensitive data egress to unsanctioned tools.
Brian Johnson, Director of IT Security at Liberty University, highlighted the operational benefit: “We have data everywhere — in the cloud, on prem, across 140,000 students in 70 countries. AI, modernisation and data sprawl are all interlinked... Before Forcepoint, I had multiple platforms and limited line of sight across them. Data Security Cloud gives us unified visibility and control at scale and simplifies my job.”
These enhancements enable security teams to gain clarity and confidence in taming data sprawl, safely enabling Generative AI, and simplifying compliance across hybrid environments.
