At A Glance Engineering and manufacturing organizations hold substantial intellectual property assets in the form of design documents and drawings produced by CAD applications. Managing and controlling these assets is a challenging task in today’s collaborative environments with many external partners involved in the supply chain. Fortra's CAD Classifier brings the benefits of data classification...

Data classification enables your organization to discover, identify, protect, and analyze your data. As you evaluate different data classification solutions, this checklist of questions will help you differentiate between various offerings and gain insight into the advantages of Fortra's Data Classification Suite (DCS). Question Explanation Fortra's Advantage Test For It Can I automatically...

The Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) of 2012 establishes a general data protection law governing the collection, use, and disclosure of an individual’s information by an organization. With penalties that target the organization and the individual, PDPA strives to entrench the protection of personal data into the business culture of an organization. The foundation of any data security...

Data Classification Suite (DCS) helps you protect your organization’s valuable information and supports your compliance with the Information Assurance Standards (IAS) outlined by the UAE Signals Intelligence Agency (SIA) — formerly the National Electronic Security Authority (NESA). DCS defines and supports your policy across 54 key IAS controls and subcontrols, ensuring that sensitive and personal...

Restricting access to certain data to only a specific group or individual is an effective way to do just that. What’s required is a solution that automates the classification and protection of data, without the need for user intervention. Based upon any number of parameters—department, role, security clearance, region, office location, etc., Seclore Rights Management can be invoked to ensure your...

Overview While there are several methods of classifying and identifying data within the data protection industry, DDE provides the most robust and flexible data detection tools available to the market today. Many of the Fortra tools incorporate advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities and enable customers to quickly and accurately detect and protect their sensitive data. Fortra calls the...

Comply with Government Security (DCS) Classifications Policy The UK Government Security Classifications (GSC) policy requires that all UK government organizations classify their information assets into one of three types: OFFICIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET. This simplified classification scheme replaces the previous Government Protective Marking Scheme (GPMS), making it easier for government staff...

The Problem The Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program standardizes the way all U.S. government agencies and military entities handle unclassified information that requires safeguarding. It clarifies and limits what kinds of information to protect, defines what is meant by “safeguard,” reinforces existing legislation and regulations, and promotes authorized information-sharing. These...

Secure Sensitive Data Wherever it Goes Employees send emails, create documents, and upload files to internal servers and cloud applications every day, and the volume of data is growing exponentially. How can you ensure that sensitive data remains secure without burdening your end users with time-consuming and confusing workflows? Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration and Fortra's Data...

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) became law in Canada in April 2000 and has been reviewed and updated every five years since.. The act was also intended to promote consumer trust in electronic commerce and also to reassure the European Union that Canadian privacy laws sufficiently protected the personal information of European citizens. PIPEDA applies to...

The Problem Over the last several years many compliance regulations have sprung up globally. Organizations doing business in regions covered by these mandates have been forced to change their business practices in order to remain compliant. These regulations require organizations to have visibility into what data they possess, and where it is located. This remains a challenge for many...

Document Management Electronic documents are an essential component of just about any enterprise. Managing this increasing number of these documents in a variety of file formats and sources is can be a challenge without an enterprise-grade Document Management System (DMS). Companies have been increasingly relying on DMS to capture, store, and retrieve electronic documents while realizing benefits...

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...

The CCPA bill, passed in 2018, encourages businesses and related entities to be transparent and requires these organizations to report breaches of personal data. The CCPA is more than just a regulation, as it represents a core change in the approach organizations must take to ensure their data remains secure and requires the creation of a data protection strategy for their data. Organizations...

Protect Data and Meet Compliance Requirements Financial institutions face immense pressure to protect the data they create and collect. These organizations must be ever vigilant to the possibility of a data breach caused either by malicious actors or through employee mistakes. In either case, a data breach carries with it severe consequences, from heavy fines to the loss of consumer trust and...

Meeting controlled unclassified information (CUI) requirements The Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program, originally implemented in 2018, standardizes the way all government agencies and military entities handle unclassified information that requires safeguarding. It clarifies and limits what kinds of information to protect, defines what is meant by “safeguard,” reinforces existing...

Meet Compliance Requirements to Protect Personal Information in South Africa The mandate of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is to regulate the processing of personal information. With this Act, data breaches need to be reported by law. Organizations need to develop a clear data protection plan to build trust with customers, drive business growth, and avoid costly...