Data Discovery and Classification Solution

With the emergence of new data protection regulations, organizations must take a combined data discovery and data classification approach to ensure sensitive data is adequately protected.

How Data Security and Data Classification Solutions Can Help

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Combining best of breed data discovery and data classification technologies provides organizations with the right tools for the job, and importantly enhances functionality that strengthens the discovery and classification process particularly if they are integrated into a "metadata" security ecosystem. Once you have found your most sensitive and business-critical data, determined the potential risks to its security, prioritized it, and classified it, you can make informed decisions about how to protect it using controls such as DLP solutions, utilizing encryption, or other post-delivery controls.

In today’s digital economy, providing the right tools to tackle big data protection issues is paramount to ensuring success and safeguards against financial and business risk associated with data loss incidents. In short, combining best-of-breed solutions for discovery and classification enables organizations to cover all bases – from classifying data being created and in transit, to critically classifying sensitive data at rest.

How to Build a Holistic View of Your Data

The process of building up a holistic view of your data involves three steps:

Determining how to identify the sensitive and business critical data within the business.

Carrying out a discovery exercise to find out exactly what legacy data exists and where it resides, as well as what new data is being collected and created.

Determining who has access to all the data that has been discovered, and how it is used.

Data Identification

Businesses create and collect more data than ever: proprietary information, financial information, employee and customer information. It’s everywhere — stored on and flowing between local machines, networks, mobile devices, and the Cloud. In addition, new security and regulations have made the identification and security of data at rest a growing concern. But to protect your data, you need to first know how to identify it.

Learn more about Fortra's Data Identification

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