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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 researchers and security...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
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Blog
Blog

Data Classification: Enabling Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, & More

By Robbie Araiza on Mon, 03/11/2024
Learn how Fortra's Data Classification Suite can facilitate compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and other prominent data privacy regulations.
Compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)
ISO 27001:2013
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
SOX (Sarbanes Oxley)
Data Classification
Datasheet
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 resulting from...
Compliance
Australian Privacy Act
Data Loss Prevention
Datasheet
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 manual, user based...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
Blog
Blog

Data Protection Myths and the Truths Behind Them

By Fortra Staff on Thu, 10/13/2022
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 problematic when misinformed thinking is the reason an organization...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
Data Protection
Digital Rights Mangement
Blog
Blog

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...
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
Blog
Blog

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...
Compliance
SOX (Sarbanes Oxley)
Data Classification