General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Learn how to identify and protect data to comply with the GDPR 

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A GDPR compliance solution that works for your business

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which provides guidance on how EU organization should store customer data and, more significantly, respond in the event of a data breach, went into effect on May 25, 2018. 

Organizations need an easy-to-use, unobtrusive GDPR compliance solution that helps you meet requirements while being fully interoperable with your other data security solutions, enabling all the separate parts to work seamlessly together. Your employees need the freedom to work just as much as you need to protect your sensitive data. Fortra’s Data Classification solutions can help you protect your data in the day-to-day flow of work. 

How Fortra’s Data Classification enhances GDPR compliance

Industry and analyst research have indicated that identifying and classifying your data are foundational steps in GDPR compliance. Fortra’s Data Classification enhances the effectiveness of your data protection and privacy program by identifying what data you have, how sensitive it is, and how it should be handled by your security stack.  

Related Resource: GDPR: Effective Approaches for Protecting PII and SPI 

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Identify personal data

Organizations have to accurately identify the information embedded within emails and documents before they’re able to make informed decisions about how to handle personal data. Data classification makes it easy to identify the sensitivity of unstructured data with support for automated, system-suggested, or user-driven identification.  

 

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Classify personal data

Automatically classify data at rest, data in motion, or in the flow of work. Data classification works where your employees work; in office productivity tools, emails, desktop, mobile, and cloud-based applications and services. The persistent metadata our solutions apply to unstructured data can be used to trigger appropriate data protection policies – by our policy engine or other solutions in your data security ecosystem.  

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Secure personal data

Based on the identification and classification of your personal data, data classification will enforce your GDPR compliance policy to secure and protect that data from breach. Whether it’s preventing the distribution of any personal data outside of your network, or encrypting anything classified as personal data, our software applies your security and GDPR compliance policies to protect your most sensitive data.  

Learn more about Fortra’s Data Classification Suite and GDPR compliance.

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Fortra directly supports the requirements of 12 GDPR articles to help you become GDPR compliant—while meeting your business objectives: 

  • Article 5 – PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA – PRINCIPLES 
  • Article 6 – LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING 
  • Article 9 – SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA 
  • Article 15 – RIGHT OF ACCESS BY THE DATA SUBJECT 
  • Article 24 – RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTROLLER 
  • Article 25 – DATA PROTECTION BY DESIGN AND BY DEFAULT 
  • Article 32 – SECURITY OF PROCESSING 
  • Article 33 – NOTIFICATION OF A PERSONAL DATA BREACH TO THE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY 
  • Article 34 – COMMUNICATION OF A PERSONAL DATA BREACH TO THE DATA SUBJECT 
  • Article 35 – DATA PROTECTION IMPACT ASSESSMENT (DPIA) 
  • Article 39 – TASKS OF THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER 
  • Article 44 – GENERAL PRINCIPLE FOR TRANSFER 

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