Fortra for Data Classification

Use Data Classification To Enhance Your Data Security

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) products provides the essential classification tools to clearly inform both your people and your policies on what information should be secured and how to handle it. Manage and protect your data with the industry’s most flexible and customizable classification metadata schema. Give your data context so people and systems understand how to handle the information. DCS products embed metadata attributes into email, documents and files at every stage of the content lifecycle and can automatically add visual markings to help organizations meet compliance and legal requirements.

Powerful Data Identification Capabilities

DCS is supported by the robust Fortra Data Detection engine that combines pattern matching, machine learning categorization, and automated PII detection to add context to data that protects beyond mere labelling. DCS products provide the essential classification tools to clearly inform both your people and your policies on what information should be secured and how to handle it by embedding metadata attributes into email, documents, and files at every stage of the content lifecycle. DCS can also automatically add visual markings to help organizations meet compliance and legal requirements.

Support For Multiple Data Types And Clouds

For a data protection solution to be effective, it needs to cover all the bases. DCS products work where you work, how you work, and in the flow of work. DCS starts by supporting the data you use every day with classification support that goes beyond emails and office documents to include PDFs, JPGs, and more. DCS solution works with the tools your teams use every day, whether that is in a Windows or Mac environment. Lastly, whether on-premises or in the cloud, DCS supports the protection of data at rest in a wide range of file shares businesses rely on to operate 24/7.

Add Accuracy To The Data Protection Tools You Already Use

Files classified with DCS gain persistent, granular, rich metadata that better informs downstream defense systems like DLP, CASB, and DRM to reduce false positives and unlock the business value of data while integrations with leading encryption vendors take the guesswork out of rights management.

Open, Enterprise-Grade Policy Engine

While some solutions lock customers into policy that is limited to common use cases and regulations, DCS classification capabilities are backed by the industry’s most flexible policy engine and includes additional capabilities to support custom conditions and actions that allow customers to create data protection policies that are rightsized for any organization.

DCS Classification capabilities are included in a suite of tools that includes the following:

Fortra’s DCS for Outlook

Email continues to be the primary method for sharing information among employees, customers, and partners; presenting a challenge for organizations that must protect information assets while promoting information sharing. Fortra’s DCS for Outlook is a security and governance solution that ensures that email messages are classified before they are sent. Flexible classification options enable user-driven, system-suggested, or automatic application of the classification based on the recipient, sender, and content.

Fortra’s DCS for Desktop

The disclosure of sensitive information and intellectual property in PDFs, videos, images, and design documents presents genuine challenges. With only a few clicks, users can copy sensitive files from their desktop to email, USB drives, instant messages, and other data leakage points. Fortra’s DCS for Desktop provides the first step in protecting sensitive files from data leakage. By enabling users to assign classifications to any file, Fortra’s DCS for Desktop identifies the value and sensitivity of information so organizations can manage, secure, and share that information.

Fortra’s DCS for Microsoft Office

Available for Microsoft Office DCS classification allows organizations to identify the value of their data and manage it accordingly. DCS Classification ensures documents are classified before they can be saved, printed, or sent via email. Flexible classification options enable user driven, system-suggested, or automatic application of the classification based on the content, author, and other document attributes.

Fortra’s DCS for Data at Rest

With more people accessing and storing files in a multitude of network and cloud repositories, sensitive data could be just about anywhere. Fortra’s DCS for Data at Rest scans file storage, including on-premises file shares, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint Online. It examines and automatically classifies the files it discovers, ensuring appropriate data protection is applied. And, as it scans files, Illuminate gathers extensive information about each file, building a data inventory for you to run analytics to identify risk areas.