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

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...
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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....
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Protection of Personal Information Act, South Africa (POPIA)

Meet Compliance Requirements to Protect Personal Information in South Africa The mandate of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is to regulate the processing of personal information. With this Act, data breaches need to be reported by law. Organizations need to develop a clear data protection plan to build trust with customers, drive business growth,...
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Lookout and Fortra’s Data Protection

Lookout Security Service Edge (SSE) As organizations seek to utilize the broadest range of cloud capabilities to increase business agility — from email and collaboration applications to cloud infrastructure and beyond — the necessity for data loss prevention has intensified. With the need to enforce stringent data protection without preventing important business operations,...
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Why Data Classification is the Cornerstone of Regulatory Compliance

Achieving compliance across a wealth of new international data compliance regulations is a growing challenge, with many organizations struggling to keep pace. In addition, the rise of globally dispersed workforces and hybrid working environments are placing extraordinary pressure on every organization’s security. Today, data classification offers an increasingly persuasive...
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 ...
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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...
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Collaborate Securely in the Cloud

1. Identify the Business Value of Data Empower your organization to make intelligent, deliberate decisions on how sensitive information is treated in the cloud. With support for automated, suggested, or user-driven classication, Fortra’s Data Classification Suite (DCS) will identify, classify and protect the sensitivity and value of unstructured data. 2. Use Metadata as the...
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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...
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Fortra and Lookout’s Data Protection

Fortra's data classification products integrate with Lookout Cloud Security Lookout Security Service Edge (SSE) As organizations seek to utilize the broadest range of cloud capabilities to increase business agility — from email and collaboration applications to cloud infrastructure and beyond — the necessity for data loss prevention has intensified. With the need to enforce...
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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...
Blog

Data Protection Myths and the Truths Behind Them

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...
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Classification in the Cloud

Image Cloud-based work environments are both convenient and cost-effective, especially in today’s remote world, but can present a challenge when it comes to meeting both regulatory compliance requirements and ensuring the protection of sensitive data. In order to maintain the protection of sensitive data when moving to and from the...
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Key Considerations in The Ever-Evolving Data Privacy Landscape – DLP or Data Classification First?

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...
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All about POPIA compliance: South Africa’s new data privacy law – and what it means for you

South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) has finally come into force. That’s good news for South African citizens and residents, since the legislation’s aim is to protect their personally identifiable information (PII) after it’s collected by public and private entities in the country. But what does the new law mean for South African organizations who...
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Orchestrating data security through effective data identification

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...
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What do companies really do with your data?

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...
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Data at rest versus data at creation: It’s not a choice you should make – secure them both

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...
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How do you handle the ticking time bomb of dark data?

Image Organizations of all sizes face a similar challenge: the ticking time bomb of old data. 2020 is expected to be a period of exceptionally rapid data growth, with the growth in demand outstripping growth in storage supply solutions, according to Harvard Business Analytics. Adding to the complexity: 80% of all data organizations...