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 | | Home > Products > Data Discovery | | Data Discovery & Classification | The lack of real-time technology or processes to find, classify and track sensitive data has led to the proliferation of large amounts of this data across most companies. The information includes intellectual property, privacy data and corporate secrets and has made its way to the hard drives of computers and file servers across global networks. IT departments are struggling to meet new corporate mandates to find and catalog this information to protect company brand and competitive advantage as well as meet compliance requirements to regulations including; SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI and more. Verdasys offers a proven turnkey solution to help companies solve this problem.
Digital Guardian’s comprehensive electronic data discovery, classification, monitoring and control capabilities provide enterprise clients with a fully integrated service to search for, identify, classify and report on the presence of sensitive information residing on servers, desktops and laptops across the enterprise. Digital Guardian, through its integrated framework and multi-function agent is the only solution that delivers comprehensive and manageable electronic data discovery and data classification capabilities.
Digital Guardian Electronic Data Discovery Technology
Through the powerful technology of Digital Guardian, the content of files are examined for sensitive data across more than 300 file types. Digital Guardian technology utilizes flexible patterns, keywords, expressions, dictionary terms, checksums, validated number ranges and other criteria as well as multi-lingual support to reduce the amount of false returns, ultimately assuring that highly sensitive data is accurately identified and protected. Electronic data discovery capabilities include:
- Initial search criteria and data scanning easily managed from a central server
- Scanning runs across all endpoints including laptops, desktops and servers
- Scans can run in background modes and in real-time during data movement
- Scanning is flexibly defined by location, machine, group and individual
- Scan analysis includes document similarities, keywords, dictionaries and regular expression patterns
- Electronic data discovery analysis includes 300 file types in over 60 languages
- Scanning results are collected, aggregated and detailed in clear and concise reports
- Report types include data at rest and as well as data movement and usage
Verdasys Enterprise Data Discovery Service
Verdasys offers a turnkey electronic data discovery service that combines the Digital Guardian’s discovery capabilities with our experienced Enterprise Data Discovery Service team. Together, they deliver a turnkey enterprise data discovery solution that eliminates the guess work around what types of data are at risk and where that data is located. Working with an experienced team of Verdasys consultants, organizations identify the types of data and the file shares or end point locations (laptops/desktops) that need to be scanned. Verdasys consultants monitor the status of the scanning throughout the project and provide detailed reports summarizing the systems that were scanned and the quantity of sensitive data found at each location. Within 30 days, your organization is able to report on exposed data and begin corrective measures to reduce risk. The Data Discovery Services values include:
- Quickly identify and inventory sensitive information residing on servers, desktops and laptops
- Execute data discovery projects without having to “ship” hardware back Corp IT
- Gain visibility into how sensitive data is being used across devices, applications and all channels of communication
- Review detailed reporting on regulated and sensitive information that at risk including intellectual property and privacy data
- World-class support provided by the experienced Verdasys consultant team
- Enabling IT auditors to focus in on where the material risks are discovered
Digital Guardian Data Classification
Implementing an actionable classification system is a critical step in any successful data security program. After sensitive files are discovered, applying a logical classification to each file offers security managers a way to quickly and efficiently determine what type of sensitive data is in the file, how sensitive that data is and even what regulatory laws that data may be relevant to.
Beyond understanding what makes the file sensitive, actionable data classification enables security managers to create and implement more effective data security policies and controls. If for example, a file is a marketing file containing customer account information, which has repercussions across GLBA, PCI and CA privacy laws, and is being used in a project to define new service offerings to customers, a policy can be created with specific controls that align to what the marketing group is trying to accomplish while protecting the data in compliance with corporate policy and regulatory laws.
The Digital Guardian platform includes “Adaptive File Tagging” technology that enables actionable data classification. Adaptive File Tagging allows sensitive files to be easily tracked and subject to real-time information use controls appropriate to the sensitivity and usage of that file. Digital Guardian’s data classification features include:
- Context and Content based classification
- Enforce persistent or non-persistent classification tagging
- Classification inheritance for persistent tagged files
- Automatic re-scan and classification of non-persistent tagged files upon file changes
- Multi-level sensitivity classifications and multifaceted context classifications
Digital Guardian is the only data loss prevention solution to combine both comprehensive data discovery and actionable data classification into a single integrated platform. As a complete data security solution, the Digital Guardian platform goes well beyond discovery and classification, offering enterprise wide monitoring of sensitive data, risk appropriate policy based controls, extensive audit and reporting capabilities and full integrated file and email encryption.
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