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Don't Classify Your Data. Press Send, Watch Your Heart Sink

By Piers Chivers
The speed at which businesses operate today obliges workers to increase efficiency. With the ease at which large amounts of data can be shared via email, digital media, and cloud apps, it is easy for confidential information to be mistakenly over-shared and exposed. 88% of data breaches are caused by employee mistakes—human error according to a joint study between Stanford...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
Datasheet

How Fortra Detects Data

Overview While there are several methods of classifying and identifying data within the data protection industry, DDE provides the most robust and flexible data detection tools available to the market today. Many of the Fortra tools incorporate advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities and enable customers to quickly and accurately detect and protect their sensitive data....
Data Classification
Data Identification
Press Release

Fortra Buys Data Loss Prevention Player Digital Guardian

"In order for us to compete better, we needed to broaden our capabilities of what we could bring to our customers. We needed to be part of something bigger in order to develop what our customers want," says Digital Guardian’s Connie Stack. Read the full article ...
Datasheet

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite Deployment Options

On-premises deployment While many industries are turning to the cloud for digital transformation, some organizations are not yet ready to deploy their highly sensitive data to the cloud and continue to choose on-premises. There are several reasons why an organization might choose on-premises deployment, including: Organizational/regional requirements: Depending on industry...
Data Protection
Datasheet

Fortra Data Identification

The Problem Compliance regulations related to data are growing in number and complexity while IT and security solutions struggle to address these challenges, thus leaving major gaps. Due to these data regulations, organizations are required not only to understand the context and the value of the vast amounts of data that flow through email, but also protect and report on that...
Data Identification
Datasheet

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Prudential Standard CPS 234

Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) helps organizations across the finance and insurance sectors meet the information security regulations mandated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Prudential Standard CPS 234. Noncompliance with APRA can result in substantial fines as well as legal risks and damage to your organization’s reputation. A data breach...
Compliance
Australian Privacy Act
Data Loss Prevention
Guide

The Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) – Protecting Government Classified Information

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...
Data Classification
Data Protection
Guide

Data Protection Technical Overview

Image 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...
Data Classification
Data Protection
Datasheet

Digital Guardian and Fortra's Classifier Suite for Data Classification

Digital Guardian integrates the Fortra's Classifier Suite Foundation Suite to incorporate the end users intimate data knowledge and drive more accurate data protection. End users self-classify data at the time of creation or interaction - this classification feeds data protection policy decision. User Classification augments the automated content and context classification with...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
steps to effective data protection guide
Guide

The 5 Steps To Effective Data Protection

Image Every day your businesses are creating more and more data. Data gets saved, employees move on, data is forgotten and lost. Valuable information sits on your file servers and document stores, not protected and unrecoverable because no one knows where to find it. Using data classification helps you regain control over your...
Data Classification
Data Protection
fortra data classification solution overview
Datasheet

Fortra Data Classification Solutions Overview

Secure Your Information, So People Can Work with Confidence Data is everywhere and protecting it is becoming more difficult than ever. Fortra Data Classification enables you to establish a policy driven foundation that helps you identify and classify sensitive data at creation, in motion, or at rest and apply the right security policy to protect it. Data Protection That Works...
Data Classification
Data Protection
Blog

Complying With the Export Administration Regulations (EAR): Everything You Need To Know

By Robbie Araiza on Thu, 06/15/2023
Image The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) are a set of regulations administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce to control the export of certain goods and technologies from the United States for reasons of national security and foreign policy. Here is a breakdown of the essentials your organization should know for proper...
Compliance
International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)
Data Protection
Blog

Data Protection Myths and the Truths Behind Them

By Fortra Staff on Thu, 10/13/2022
Image To implement or not to implement? That is the question when evaluating a new technology solution for your organization. Complicating the often daunting decision are the preconceived notions held at various organizational levels as to whether the solution is necessary, or more trouble than it’s worth. This can become especially...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
Data Protection
Digital Rights Mangement
Blog

Key Considerations in The Ever-Evolving Data Privacy Landscape – DLP or Data Classification First?

Thu, 02/17/2022
Image Enza Iannopollo, principal analyst at Forrester, recently answered some of the pressing questions we’ve received when it comes to data security, and more importantly building the foundations of your data security strategy. Today we’re looking at what Enza had to say when it comes to implementing DLP and data classification, and...
Data Identification
Data Protection
Blog

Enterprise Data Classification: Why you need best-of-breed data classification

By Chris Brook on Wed, 07/28/2021
Image The data protection landscape and its associated compliance environment changed fundamentally with the implementation of the European-wide GDPR in May 2018, with many other privacy regulations following suit around the globe. It is no longer about what organizations think they need to be doing in order to control their data, but...
Compliance
Data Classification
Data Protection
Blog

Key Takeaways from Biden's Sweeping Executive Order on Cybersecurity

Thu, 06/03/2021
Image On Wednesday May 12, the Biden administration took a critical step towards addressing security issues that have come to light after several recent, high profile cyberattacks. The extensive Executive Order (EO) described the government's plan to increase cybersecurity protection across the public and private sectors as well as...
Data Protection
Blog

Orchestrating data security through effective data identification

By Fortra Staff on Tue, 06/30/2020
Image As the Fourth Industrial Revolution evolves and our society and its organizations continue transitioning to what some call the “Age of Data”, certain things have become undeniably self-evident. For one, the amount and velocity of data companies face is now far greater than ever before. Organizations must also handle more and...
Data Identification
Data Protection
Blog

What do companies really do with your data?

By Fortra Staff on Tue, 06/09/2020
Image Serious question: Has anyone, ever, consciously decided not to use a website they require (or even just want to use) because they don’t agree with a cookie consent warning? Cookie consent warnings are those little strips that appear along the bottom of virtually every website you visit nowadays (including ours), notifying users...
Compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Data Classification
Data Identification