Auditing & Reporting

You’ve spent time implementing your data classification solution, but this is where data classification really adds value.

When the CSO or CISO asks you to justify spend in data security, or you need to review your security policy to prove compliance, you need hard data.

Data Classification solutions offer a customisable dashboard and bespoke reporting, so you’ll be able to discover the journey of your data; where it’s stored, who sees it, who can access it, and where attempts at unauthorised access have been made … and blocked.

Auditing for compliance

With an increasing pressure on companies coming from legislation, such as GDPR, SOX and HIPAA, to prove policies are in place to protect their data, any-time auditing becomes easy. You can have confidence in your compliance, and the information you need at your fingertips.

Dashboards for data analysis

Data Classification solutions usually come with an in-built customisable dashboard that you can configure to tell you what you need to know. Visual dashboards work in real time, displaying activity as it happens. By drilling down into specific data classifications or activities you can receive granular data, allowing you to understand and act on behavioural patterns and trends and support forensic enquiries.

There is also the option to customise reports that can keep you up to date, run at a frequency you choose for each classification of documents. These versatile reports can reflect activities by user, business area or organisation to show you how and where your data is travelling.

Advanced data reporting capabilities

Every activity your users make, from the selection or downgrading of a classification to the saving of a file, is recordedand sent to a local Windows events log.

Advanced Data Classification solutions can report on this using built-in reporting tools, or if you prefer, these logs can be automatically forwarded to a SIEM solution for monitoring in a SOC by your company’s security specialists. This automation can save your IT team hours laboriously reviewing logs, making faster and more thorough log reviews for unusual patterns of behaviour.