With the volume and speed of data being created and shared at an all-time high, your organization’s sensitive information is likely in a myriad of locations including emails, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, PDFs, videos, and images. Should that data be exposed, it could have serious repercussions for your organization, such as reputation damage, loss of government contracts, regulatory...

Many organizations allow their employees to access email through Web browsers to offer a more flexible work environment. Microsoft Outlook Web App (OWA*) provides users with a familiar email and calendar experience across both Windows and Mac platforms. But while convenient for users, this can make organizations more vulnerable to data leakage. Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) for OWA is...

The Problem Government agencies collect, use, and store personally identifiable information (PII) about citizens, employees, patients and other individuals every day. Much of this sensitive information is held in unstructured formats such as documents, emails and various other file types, but the exact location and storage of the data is difficult to track. This poses a significant risk for...

Introduction After years of deliberation, the U.S. government’s National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has released more details of its regulation for the protection framework of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The rule is designed to safeguard government data that has not been assigned as confidential or secret, but which...

1. Identify the Business Value of Data Empower your organization to make intelligent, deliberate decisions on how sensitive information is treated in the cloud. With support for automated, suggested, or user-driven classication, Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) will identify, classify and protect the sensitivity and value of unstructured data. 2. Use Metadata as the Foundation for Secure...

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite for Microsoft Outlook Whether on the desktop or in the cloud, email continues to be the primary method for sharing information among employees, customers, and partners. This presents a challenge for organizations that must protect information assets while promoting information sharing. The critical first step in...

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) helps organizations across the finance and insurance sectors meet the information security regulations mandated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Prudential Standard CPS 234. Noncompliance with APRA can result in substantial fines as well as legal risks and damage to your organization’s reputation. A data breach resulting from...

In today’s collaborative work environments, documents are regularly shared among employees, customers, and partners. This presents a challenge to organizations that must protect information assets while promoting information sharing. The critical first step in solving this challenge is to classify documents at the time of creation, allowing the organization to identify the information’s value, and...

As the volume of unstructured information grows, the risk of data leakage grows with it. With only a few clicks, users can copy sensitive files from their desktop to email, USB drives, instant messages, and other data leakage points. This increases the risk of serious data leaks, including the disclosure of sensitive information and intellectual property contained in PDFs, videos, images, and...

Bridging The Gap To Secure Data The Data Protection Challenge Data is growing exponentially while compliance requirements are expanding and becoming more costly to manage. There are increasing societal implications and expectations about personal data privacy in addition to ensuring the security of your organization’s IP. The explosion of data and complexity of regulatory governance combined with...

A Secure Messaging Solution for Defence and Intelligence Environments Using Microsoft Outlook & Exchange At A Glance SAFEmail® Client and Server extends COTS Microsoft Outlook and Exchange message functionality to enhance the systems to support Medium and High Grade messaging capabilities. The modular architecture of SAFEmail provides the flexibility required for defense and intelligence...

Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) provides a data security infrastructure across Microsoft applications, as part of the MS Azure subscription package. MIP is a cloud-based solution which allows you to classify and label Office files and Outlook emails, which in turn drives Microsoft Azure Rights Management (RMS). The underlying aim of MIP is to help organizations capitalize on the information...

When discussing data governance tools, it’s no secret the topic of false positives is seen as one of the biggest downfalls. False positives occur when an event is triggered by the data governance policy in error, for example, a combination of numbers could be identified as a credit card number, or a reference number. This means that data can be quarantined unnecessarily, stopping people going...

Protect personal data and avoid financial penalties and reputational damage in the face of constantly evolving privacy legislation. Privacy laws are front and center for most countries in 2022, and Australia is no exception. The Australian Privacy Act addresses the management and handling of personal data. It applies to any organization that holds data on Australian citizens, irrespective of...

User-centric data classification for Microsoft Office for Mac Application Suite At A Glance Apple Mac desktop and laptop devices are common amongst the senior executives of many organizations and dominate the creative and media industries. Within these communities the protection of sensitive data is paramount. According to analysts IDC, the market share for Mac devices has grown to a record 8%...

Fortra's data classification products integrate with Lookout Cloud Security Lookout Security Service Edge (SSE) As organizations seek to utilize the broadest range of cloud capabilities to increase business agility — from email and collaboration applications to cloud infrastructure and beyond — the necessity for data loss prevention has intensified. With the need to enforce stringent data...

Protect Sensitive Data on EU Citizens The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25th May 2018, yet many organizations are still not fully prepared and compliant. This new regulation replaces the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive, and is intended to plug the trust gap, by modernizing the legislation that safeguards personal data within the EU. It makes protection levels...

Digital Guardian integrates the Fortra's Classifier Suite Foundation Suite to incorporate the end users intimate data knowledge and drive more accurate data protection. End users self-classify data at the time of creation or interaction - this classification feeds data protection policy decision. User Classification augments the automated content and context classification with manual, user based...

Data classification allows your users to assign a visual label to the data they create, so that informed decisions can be taken about how it is managed, protected, and shared, both within and outside of your organization. Fortra’s Classifier Suite turns that visual label into metadata, which can be used to both enforce your company’s security policies and drive other technologies, such as data...

We’re entering a new era of data protection – one that promises ever greater protection for data subjects, tighter regulatory oversight and even larger fines for non-compliance. While data classification offers an increasingly persuasive answer to the questions of unintended data leakage, it doesn’t stop here. With Gartner pointing to rapidly growing adoption, the benefits of effectively...