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Unlocking the Potential of Data Governance with Data Classification
By Robbie Araiza on Thu, 12/14/2023
Learn what data governance means and why data classification is a crucial part of its success.
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Data Protection Technical Overview
What’s Inside: The key requirements for successful data protection How we provide the deepest, most unified, visibility of your sensitive data The Fortra Data Protection security architecture and infrastructure This technical overview guide includes our tested and proven requirements for protecting sensitive data, and what makes our technology so unique.
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Request A Demo of Fortra's Classifier Suite
Spend less time worrying about your data’s security by spending time with us. During your demo, we will cover: A full run through of Fortra's Classifier Suite , including email and document classification How classification labelling and metadata restricts unauthorized sending The need to classify at a granular level Integration with downstream data protection tools, such as DLP We will show you...
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What Is Data Classification?
Wed, 10/25/2023
What Is Data Classification And What Can It Do For My Business? Data classification is an approach to identifying, protecting and managing information which has rapidly become best practice. Implemented as part of a layered security strategy, it enables an enterprise to defend itself against a variety of threats - from aggressive outsiders to untrained or well-meaning insiders - while unlocking...
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Fortra's Classifier Suite User-Applied Classification and Symantec Data Loss Prevention Improve User Acceptance and Risk Reduction
The combination of Fortra's Classifier Suite and Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) reduces the likelihood of data loss by applying the insight of each knowledge worker to DLP decisions. Classifier captures the user’s view of the business value of data in the form of visual and metadata markings applied to messages and documents. This user perspective can then be used to supplement automated...
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Lookout and Fortra Partner to Secure Sensitive Data Across the Enterprise
By Corey Markell on Thu, 12/01/2022
Editor’s Note: This blog post was co-authored by Clayton Barnard, Senior Director, Global Alliances at Lookout, and Corey Markell, Associate Director, Strategic Resource Group at Fortra. The first steps for any organization in creating a data security strategy are accurately identifying all of their sensitive information and securing that data from unauthorized access, regardless of where it...
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Data Classification Tools
By Fortra Staff on Wed, 11/06/2019
Data Classification Tools: Why Are They Needed? Data classification tools are becoming more and more of a necessity for businesses and organizations – especially those with increasingly decentralized staff and contractors. The amount of data being sent to and received from different departments and units within your organization – as well as exchanged with external partners – is at an all-time...
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What is SOX Compliance? 2019 SOX Requirements & More
By Fortra Staff on Fri, 04/05/2019
A definition of SOX Compliance In 2002, the United States Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in enterprises, and to improve the accuracy of corporate disclosures. The act sets deadlines for compliance and publishes rules on requirements. Congressman Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley drafted the...
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Better Together – Microsoft AIP and Fortra's Data Classifier
Thu, 08/23/2018
Following on from our first post of the series, What is AIP ?, this week we look at how AIP is better when paired with Fortra's Data Classifier , and the business value you will get from this partnership. In the world of enterprise data protection and data classification , the requirement for flexible solutions combining best-of-breed functionality with sophisticated policy support is viewed as...
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Enhancing Microsoft AIP: What is AIP?
By Chris Brook on Thu, 08/16/2018
Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP) provides a data security infrastructure across Microsoft applications, as part of the MS Azure subscription package. AIP is a cloud-based solution which allows you to classify and label Office files and Outlook emails, which in turn drives Microsoft Azure Rights Management (RMS). The underlying aim of AIP is to help organizations capitalize on the...