New Salesforce and Amazon S3 governance, plus workflow-driven access reviews and minimization controls, help teams reduce overexposure faster and streamline compliance evidence.
Lightbeam, an identity-centric data security, privacy, and governance platform, announced its Winter Release 2026, expanding data security governance capabilities that help cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance teams reduce data risk and accelerate audit readiness across critical enterprise data environments.
Cybersecurity and data leaders face a simple reality: data risk increases as sensitive data spreads across SaaS, multicloud, and legacy file environments, while governance execution still relies on manual reviews and inconsistent evidence collection. According to Gartner®, “Cybersecurity leaders are responsible for mitigating an increasingly complex variety of data security and privacy risks as data sprawls across multicloud and hybrid IT architectures. Such mitigation requires implementing a growing array of data security technologies and assessing how these technologies impact the performance of business projects and their objectives.”
Winter Release 2026 highlights
The Winter Release 2026 helps teams operationalize data security governance with measurable controls and repeatable execution, including:
- Data security governance for Salesforce and Amazon S3: Effective access insights help teams identify over-permissioned access and overexposure, prioritize remediation, and support least-privilege and audit requirements.
- Workflow-driven policy creation: Structured policy creation workflows simplify complex policy creation into easy to build workflows.
- Minimization and label-driven governance: Duplicate file and stale file controls reduce exposure and shrink audit scope, while Microsoft Purview label alignment supports consistent retention and defensible handling.
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“Data security governance fails when it stops at discovery and never reaches execution,” said Himanshu Shukla, CEO of Lightbeam. “With the Winter Release 2026, Lightbeam helps teams measure effective access in systems like Salesforce and Amazon S3, run repeatable access reviews, and reduce exposure through defensible minimization actions. This release turns governance into an operational system that reduces risk without slowing down the business.”
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