India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is a ground-breaking legislation that balances the rights of individuals to protect their personal data with the necessity of processing such data for lawful purposes. The Act imposes obligations on Data Fiduciaries, those processing data, and outlines the rights and duties of Data Principals, individuals to whom the data pertains. It also...

If you’re in charge of securing data at your organization, you already know that classifying it is foundational for data security. It’s especially the case for organizations looking to take a zero trust approach to data protection. What’s Inside: What is Zero Trust, and what is the right approach? Adding context to data, and why this is important How data classification and Zero Trust go hand in...

This guide discusses the three key steps that must be taken by government organizations to protect PII they have in their possession. Identify your PII through marking and metadata tagging Educate and build awareness of the organization’s PII among employees, contractors, and partners Select the appropriate controls to protect PII

Established by Executive Order 13556, the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program defines a uniform policy for the treatment of unclassified information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls. The CUI Executive Order specifically adopts, defines, and institutes CUI as the single designation for all information formerly designated by Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU), For...

This guide will examine the challenges of content protection and user acceptance of this technology. It provides an overview of Microsoft’s Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and its integration with Fortra Data Classification. This combination provides a powerful and intuitive solution for policy compliance and information protection.

The security landscape has changed in the last couple of years, and organizations need to think about future-proofing their environment. Data classification plays a crucial part of any data security, and organizations need to look to specialist providers for solutions that work for the business needs. Our latest guide demonstrates why organizations need to be picky when it comes to a single vendor...

Data security breaches can have a huge impact on an organization’s reputation, shattering customer trust and loyalty, so it’s unsurprising that data protection is higher up the boardroom agenda than it’s ever been. In this white paper, we look at how the threat landscape has changed for businesses, the drivers behind the change – both technical and cultural, and the challenges involved in managing...

Count Down the 10 Data Classification Mistakes to Avoid Nearly every CISO knows the importance and value of classifying their data. Having a data classification policy in place makes it easier to locate and retrieve data; it’s also a must for any effective data security plan, especially if you’re looking to address any risk management or compliance needs. While data classification is critical to...

Big data, data governance, data management and securing sensitive data – these are everyday challenges for Australian Government organizations, as well as making sure that sensitive data has the right security labelling applied. In this whitepaper we will explore how the Australian Protective Security Policy Framework is helping government agencies. We will examine Protective Markings, what these...

With email the de-facto method of sharing information, government organizations must balance the need to share with the need to protect data from leakage or loss. In an effort to address a problem which is never far from the headlines, the UK Government has revised the requirements in its Government Security Classification (GSC) scheme to ensure information security, privacy and accountability...

Big data, data governance, data management and securing sensitive data – these are everyday challenges for government organizations around the world, as well as making sure that sensitive data has the right security labelling applied. In this whitepaper we will explore how classification and protective marking schemes are helping government organizations better secure data. We will delve into...

There are two types of companies: those that run on data and those that will run on data. Infosec professionals will perennially be challenged with more to do than time, budget, and staffing will allow. The most effective method to address this is through prioritization, and in the case of your growing data, prioritization comes from data classification. In this guide you will learn what...

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.

Protecting data in accordance with its value or sensitivity is a critical part of information management and data governance. A data discovery and classification exercise, facilitated by the right technology tools, will enable an enterprise to find its sensitive data, label it with the appropriate sensitivity, and ensure that you can demonstrate regulatory compliance by applying controls and...