Data breaches in the cloud remain an unsolved problem because existing security controls are blind to the data they are attempting to protect. To overcome this data blindness, controls and access policies become overly complex with no added security benefit. Theom takes a new approach to cloud data security by taking inspiration from how the Secret Service protects high-value assets–the president and VIPs. The Secret Service bodyguards identify the high-value assets, assess risks and ensure that protection always follows the asset, adapting the security as environments change. Like the president’s bodyguards, Theom identifies all your high-value assets–your data, prioritizes the risk to the data including access that’s atypical or overly permissive, and then ensures that data assurance and security controls always follow the data, whether it is at rest, or in transit via APIs or message queues. Theom–the data bodyguard for your cloud–works with your existing security controls to deliver the strongest protection against breaches.