● Imperative for implementing a reliable information governance strategy
● A key step in the data-centric and audit protection process recommended by Gartner
Use custom classification labels to find and protect PII, PCI, ePHI and other types of sensitive data
Classify data found on every computer, network file share, email system, the cloud and other disparate locations
Build recurring workflows to examine and label content by risk, business value, regulatory concerns and more
Automate policies on categorized data for security, compliance, legal, HR, IT and records management
Create audit reports to meet compliance requirements and direct remediation efforts
Proactively label data to enable faster, focused responses to security, legal and compliance incidents
EMPLOYEE-ASSISTED DATA CLASSIFICATION
Engage employees in your classification process
Improve buy-in and policy adherence by engaging employees in your file analysis and retention processes. Sherpa Software’s data classification software will:
- Identify and tag risky documents on an employee’s device
- Alert the user and allow the user to review
- Provide action options — such as quarantine or delete — based on the data
- Execute the appropriate action per employee guidance
By utilizing employee review and input, you can rapidly maximize information governance effectiveness to reduce business risk, protect sensitive information and secure valuable documents!
DATA REPORTING
Monitor your data with category reports & analytics
After inventorying and classifying your data, use Sherpa Altitude’s reports and analytics tools to see where your most sensitive and highest value information is stored, and assess vulnerability to risks like insider threats and cyberattacks. Apply these insights to refine your data strategy to better protect your organization and save countless productivity hours and terabytes of space.
- Construct data inventories that show current data structures and their changes over time
- Allow departmental review of reports and selection of items for quarantine or deletion
- Identify and delete ROT data, mitigating risk and reclaiming storage space
- See the impact of retention policies and classification workflows via statistical trend reports
SAMPLE USE CASE
Achieving GDPR & CCPA compliance
GDPR and CCPA non-compliance can lead to major fines for businesses. To ensure compliance and avoid these costs, organizations are using Sherpa Software’s platform to identify and secure documents relevant to GDPR and CCPA requests and requirements.
- Periodically scan unstructured repositories for terms indicating an EU or California address
- Automatically label files found to pose a GDPR or CCPA regulatory risk
- Move, delete, copy and/or otherwise classify tagged files via predefined workflows
- Perform data subject access requests to answer compliance requirements
PRODUCTS
Altitude
Sherpa Software’s Altitude software platform provides a best-in-class, end-to-end solution for sensitive data discovery, data classification, file analysis and information governance, with affordable pricing for businesses of all sizes. With Altitude, users can easily:
- Inventory: Sift through terabytes of dark data to find sensitive and risky information
- Analyze: Present files for risk and importance review
- Classify: Tag files with labels like sensitive, confidential, internal, public or ROT
- Manage: Decide where data goes and what to do with it
- Remediate Risk: Automate deletion, saving and/or quarantining
Contact us today to see how Altitude could help you mitigate risk, ensure privacy and Compliance, and protect sensitive data in your organization.
RESOURCES
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