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Project AssistanceDiscovering and organising your legacy data
Legacy data. Every data manager’s worst nightmare. Today organisations have petabytes of files going back decades that they need to migrate. And with the exponentially increasing levels of data and the need to classify and control it, how do we face up to legacy data that can include literally billions of historical data files? And how can we determine which of these are critical to your business operations, and understand where your data is hiding, so you can demonstrate compliance when the pressure is on?
GDPR and controlling legacy data
GDPR is just part of a new wave of legislation dictating how we protect the data we hold. Data management and Independent specialists in Global Data Security, HANDD, have seen a huge rise in clients looking to tame their legacy data as new legislation requires companies to hand over or remove data files on request, forcing businesses around the world to reconsider their data management.
Solving the litany of legacy data
Whilst the prospect of ploughing through your legacy data may bring you out in a cold sweat, there are easier, more efficient and cost-effective solutions than barricading a team in a room for weeks on end.
Data discovery packages can help you to explore legacy data and classify it accordingly, so that it too can be managed and protected through your company’s data protection policies.
The power of software in managing your data
Effective Data Classification solutions will show you more about your data’s movement than you’ve ever seen before. You can see who is using it, and when and how they are accessing it. Some solutions even give you the opportunity to model the impact of permissions changes, so you can ensure that your data protection measures aren’t impacting the daily running of your business.
Seven Reasons to Classify Your Data
Six Steps to Implementing a Data Classification ProgrammeDeployments
We secure the entire journey of your data, from consultancy and technical design, right through to installation, training and support.
Challenge: Controlling data with vast user access
With over 4000 end users, an Insurance industry client came to HANDD for help. They needed to ensure policy details couldn’t be sent to unauthorised external parties by email. Using data classification, we identified and classified new documents containing policy numbers. Then we integrated the classification platform with the client’s Symantec DLP solution, enabling DLP to work more efficiently to ensure sensitive content only travels to cleared recipients.
Challenge: Managing compliance with large volumes of legacy data
With billions of records to sift through and strict compliance mandates, a global bank needed to get control over their legacy data. First, using a discovery tool HANDD helped them identify their sensitive data and discover where it was stored. Then, we labelled their data using Data Classification. This enabled them to apply protective measures efficiently to their most sensitive files for the first time.
Challenge: Ad-hoc application of protective measures
Staff typing SECURE into email subject lines to trigger downstream protection of sensitive data left plenty of scope for error. At this leading financial services organisation classification was inconsistent and ad-hoc. Security of delivery was unreliable. They contacted HANDD for help improving their classification processes. We implemented a Data Classification solution that would automatically classify emails. Integrating with a message gateway it prevents data falling into the wrong hands.
Challenge: Controlling data with vast user access
With over 4000 end users, an Insurance industry client came to HANDD for help. They needed to ensure policy details couldn’t be sent to unauthorised external parties by email. Using data classification, we identified and classified new documents containing policy numbers. Then we integrated the classification platform with the client’s Symantec DLP solution, enabling DLP to work more efficiently to ensure sensitive content only travels to cleared recipients.
Challenge: Managing compliance with large volumes of legacy data
With billions of records to sift through and strict compliance mandates, a global bank needed to get control over their legacy data. First, using a discovery tool HANDD helped them identify their sensitive data and discover where it was stored. Then, we labelled their data using Data Classification. This enabled them to apply protective measures efficiently to their most sensitive files for the first time.
Challenge: Ad-hoc application of protective measures
Staff typing SECURE into email subject lines to trigger downstream protection of sensitive data left plenty of scope for error. At this leading financial services organisation classification was inconsistent and ad-hoc. Security of delivery was unreliable. They contacted HANDD for help improving their classification processes. We implemented a Data Classification solution that would automatically classify emails. Integrating with a message gateway it prevents data falling into the wrong hands.
