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In research conducted by Independent Global Data Protection Specialists HANDD, 21% of IT Professionals said regulations, legislation and compliance will be one of the biggest challenges to impact data security.
GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, CUI, NIST, PCI – the raft of data protection legislation is growing rapidly, placing a higher onus on compliance than ever before. And it’s down to you, the company, to prove that you’ve taken precautions to safeguard your sensitive data, throughout its lifecycle.
The problem with proving compliance is twofold:
- It’s dependent on having the right infrastructures in place to ensure an ongoing and demonstrable approach to compliance.
- The application of the protection has to be consistent.
Data Classification resolves these issues, streamlining effective application of security policies to make compliance consistent, effective and reliable.
Putting policies in place
With Data Classification and any third-party data protection solutions you use, you can set up policies that work with data classification metadata to drive the protection and management of your data. Whether that’s DLP preventing highly sensitive data from being emailed to another company, applying encryption to all PII data, or even preventing downloads to personal devices.
Keeping these policies in one place make it easier to demonstrate that your business is serious about data protection.
Consistent data protection
Automatic triggering of these processes by metadata present in a data file means a more consistent application with fewer documents missed or misfiled, and data protection processes that can really reflect your company policies.
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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.
