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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

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
Guide
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
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
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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
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Datasheet
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
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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
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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
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The Importance of Automation in Data Classification

By Fortra Staff on Wed, 02/23/2022
Image It’s no surprise to anyone that the amount of data that exists is rapidly growing. A report by IDC predicts that by 2025, the global datasphere will have grown to 175 zettabyes. To put in perspective how much data this truly is, one zettabyte is equal to one trillion gigabytes – that is an astronomical amount of data. Needless...
Compliance
Data Classification
Security Automation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Data at rest versus data at creation: It’s not a choice you should make – secure them both

By Fortra Staff on Thu, 05/28/2020
Image As part of your defense against an external cyberattack, you’re ready to tackle the enormous task of securing all the data sitting on your servers, desktops and external drives. If you’re like most organizations, you’ve got tons of it because no one throws anything away these days. And if you’re working at an enterprise, it’s...
Data Identification
Data Protection
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Are your Zoom meetings vulnerable to data leakage?

By Fortra Staff on Fri, 04/17/2020
Image It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 billion people worldwide working remotely today as a result of the current pandemic. Now that you have most, if not all, of your employees working remotely how do you minimize the risk of data breaches or inadvertent exposure of sensitive data? Protecting the network is a good first...
Data Classification
Data Protection
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Fortra’s Data Classification Suite for Outlook on the web built on the Office Add-in platform

By Fortra Staff on Thu, 04/09/2020
Image Fortra’s Data Classification Suite for Microsoft Outlook on the web is a security and governance add-in that enables organizations to ensure consistent and prudent handling of Outlook emails in real time. Fortra’s Data Classification Suite helps Outlook on the web users: Identify and classify emails based on data sensitivity ...
Data Classification
Data Protection
Microsoft
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Data protection for remote workers

Wed, 04/08/2020
Image Working remotely has become the “new normal”, at least for the foreseeable future. Some 1.5 billion people are now working remotely. It seems companies overnight moved into a work-at-home reality, and many workplace experts predict that more and more organizations will continue to rely on remote workers after this pandemic has...
Compliance
Data Protection
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GDPR: Effective Approaches for Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Sensitive Personal Information (SPI)

By Fortra Staff on Thu, 03/01/2018
Image Many companies are currently in various phases of projects to comply with the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) ahead of the May 2018 enforcement deadline. Many vendors and service providers speak generally about GDPR and often, in my view, over simplify solutions to issues that are raised. Rather than try...
Compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Data Classification
Data Protection