Enterprise File Fabric™
To satisfy the GDPR companies will need to track who had access to personal data, when, and why.
Access is controlled by Identity Management authorisations and access control, but the actual access to the data should be logged. Automatic Audit logging tracks user activities for any and all file events and enables extranal audit and/or subject access requests to be satisfied easily and effectively.
Continue reading “GDPR Watch – Auditing Data Access”
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Data, data everywhere….and then……what?
That is the issue with digital data. As digital data doubles very year it leads to vast quantities of unstructured data as employees create office documents, PDF’s, videos etc. Searching and classifying this data however presents a challenge particularly as the data within companies is spread across a multitude of on-cloud and on-premises systems and is simply not joined up.
Continue reading “If data is the new oil then metadata is the refiner”
by Identity Management is an important piece of the GDPR governance process, particularly ‘who’ has access to ‘what’ data and ‘how’ that access is granted.
Continue reading “GDPR Watch – Identity and Authentication”
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This post is the first in a new series of posts focusing on the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and specifically focuses on data encryption.
Continue reading “GDPR Watch – Transparent encryption of data”
by A number of compliance standards hinge on identifying and protecting Personal Information. This Personal Information can take many forms including Personal Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and Sensitive Personal Information (SPI).
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the newest compliance standard sweeping the industry. However existing compliance standards such as HIPPA , GLBA and FERPA all require strict controls of personal data. Fines for violating compliance skyrocket with GDPR, so how should Enterprises find and classify existing PII data?
Introducing the PII Scanning and Detection engine for the Enterprise File Fabric…
Continue reading “How to discover PII Data on any local or remote Storage”
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming fast, it almost certainly applies to your organization, and the consequences of getting it wrong are severe.
The time to get ready is now!
GDPR will require companies to have/provide a greater understanding of where and how sensitive data is stored, transferred, and accessible and in particular how companies police and audit this data.
Continue reading “Enforce GDPR across existing data in your Company”
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Most companies today have multi-cloud environments as the benefit from mixing and matching the best technologies from various cloud and applications providers, but managing data is a daunting prospect, particularly with incumbent compliance legislation such as GDPR.
With the Storage Made Easy File Fabric, companies can have a single pane of glass for all corporate data, whether it is on cloud or on-premises, to promote a more unified productive experience for end users and to enforce a unified data security policy with full file event audit logging to track data access.
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<This blog post has been updated with a new white paper in February 2018>
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been approved by the European Union and, once it comes into force in May 2018, it will give data subjects significant new rights over how their personal data is collected, processed, and transferred by data controllers and processors. It demands significant data protection safeguards to be implemented by organizations. The time to get ready is now, as the consequences of getting it wrong are significant.
GDPR is coming fast, it almost certainly applies to your company, and the consequences of getting it wrong are severe.
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