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
ITAR covers the transfer of technical data and information relating to goods, as well as the goods themselves. Technical documents, product plans and specifications, design drawings, manuals and financial details may all need to be shared across the supply chain if an ITAR-related project is to be delivered. However, authority needs to be granted and access by unauthorized persons prohibited or...
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.
Reading this guide will enable you to: Learn how Fortra’s Data Classification Suite leverages metadata to achieve extensibility Identify best practices for a flexible schema that matches your data protection policy Implement metadata which will trigger downstream technologies like encryption or data loss prevention (DLP or CASB)
The data protection landscape and compliance environment has changed significantly with the implementation of GDPR, and the many other privacy regulations that have followed suit. It is no longer about what organizations think they need to be doing in order to control their data, but what they are being told they need to do by regulators. There are vendors today offering “one-size-fits-all”...
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...
Preventing data loss is much like being engulfed in a swarm of mosquitos – a potential data ‘bite’ can come from anywhere at any time. Understanding how and why data loss can occur is essential to building successful Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Here are some of the key challenges that need to be addressed for a successful DLP deployment.
Discover how shifting to a data-centric security model is the first step to securing your unstructured information. This guide includes: Data classification for information security ISO 27002 controls Structuring data classification Implementing data classification
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...
In today’s highly regulated environment, achieving compliance across numerous data privacy laws and regulations is a growing challenge for businesses worldwide. In this paper, we identify the key steps to help organizations sensibly adopt a better data protection posture and with it, build a firm foundation towards compliance. This paper includes: How data breaches are driving regulatory change...
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...