Government Protective Marking Scheme

GPMS Marking

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In the United Kingdom, government agencies and public sector organizations need to comply with Her Majesty's Government (HMG) Security Policy Framework. The Government Protective Marking Scheme (GPMS) is the mandated scheme for classifying data, and to raise awareness to the existence of sensitive information.

Compliance with GPMS requires that the markings are applied by the user to email and documents to control distribution in line with HMG Security Policy Framework policy.

TITUS offers very simple tools for Microsoft Outlook and Office that provides GPMS compliance for every email and document on creation, before they can send, save or print. These tools also apply the required protective markings to email and documents.

The Police Forces also have specific rules for classifying and handling paper documents. Essex Police and Fife Constabulary are among those who have selected TITUS products to ensure protective marking in email.

Download our free white paper to learn more about:

• The impact of the GPMS guidelines on email security policies
• Minimizing inadvertent disclosure with proper protective markings
• Using classification to automate the application of encryption
• And much more

HMG Solutions Include:

Data Classification

Message Classification
Classifies, labels, and protectively marks email in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices. This allows organizations to comply by ensuring every email is classified and protectively marked before being sent.

Classification for Microsoft Office
Classifies, labels, and protectively marks documents in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This allows organizations to comply by ensuring every document is classified and protectively marked before being saved or printed.

Classification for Desktop
Classifies any file type in Windows Explorer, including Adobe PDF, multimedia files, and CAD documents.

SharePoint Security

Metadata Security
Restricts access to documents in SharePoint based on the document’s metadata properties in order to ensure the right people are seeing the right information.

Document Policy Manager
Applies visual labels to existing and new documents automatically in order to help comply with marking requirements. Converts documents to Adobe PDF to protect against unauthorized editing of sensitive information.