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What is Data Discovery and Classification?
Data Discovery and Classification is the process of identifying and classifying your data and the personal information within it, allowing you to be more secure and more compliant.
Data discovery and data classification are the two most essential components of data management.
- Data discovery is the process of identifying and locating data sources, understanding data formats, and assessing data quality.
- Data classification is the process of labeling and tagging data based on its sensitivity, value, and regulatory requirements. Data is most commonly classified as public, internal, confidential, or restricted.
70 %
of enterprises are able to classify only 50% or less of their data.
– Thales Data Threat Report
Find and protect your data with CipherTrust
CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification (DDC) discovers and classifies data enabling organizations to become more secure and compliant. Bring agility and confidence to your data management. CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification provides complete visibility into the location of sensitive data across your enterprise, so you can uncover and close compliance gaps.
DDC scans structured as well as unstructured data stores for named entities in different formats and global languages to help you find any type of sensitive data, in any language, anywhere across your enterprise
- Discover and Classify your Data
- Better Secure your Data
- Enhance your Compliance Posture
Why you'll love CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification
Enhance your data security
- Easily discover and classify your data
- Central platform for data management
- Real-time data dashboards and reports
- Discovery of custom info types
Easily manage data security
- Secure sensitive data
- Understand your security risks
- Discover secrets before they become security issues
- Know what data needs what level of security
Address compliance requirements
- Uncover compliance gaps
- Reduce risk
- Discard unnecessary data
- Stay ahead of regulatory changes
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Thales Named Overall Leader in Data Security Platforms
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DATA DISCOVERY AND CLASSIFICATION FEATURES
Gain the visibility you need of sensitive data across your enterprise
Enhanced security
Without understanding where your data is, it’s hard to prevent data breaches and unauthorized access and implement security measures to protect your data. Classifying your data ensures it is managed according to compliance regulations.
Data management
Eliminate excess storage and costs by reducing redundant, obsolete, or stored data that has no business value to your organization. Create streamlined workflows that automate future processes and grant access based on user needs.
Ongoing compliance
Keeps you up to date automatically with all major global and regional compliance requirements while reducing the risk of failed audits or fines by proactively identifying compliance gaps.
Secrets discovery
When threat actors discover secrets such as tokens, API keys, passwords, or usernames, they can be used to break into IT systems. CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification uses AI to proactively scan code for specific patterns, making developers aware of them before they become security threats. Secrets discovery proactively helps stop malicious actors before they gain unauthorized access to your data.
Comprehensive platform
Gain visibility into the location of sensitive data so you can uncover and close security and compliance gaps. DDC scans structured and unstructured data stores for named entities in different formats and global languages to help customers find sensitive data in any language anywhere across their enterprise.
Simplified installation and management
Identifying sensitive data across the enterprise is time-consuming, underscoring the need for tools that facilitate quick deployment, enabling prompt scanning. The installation of DDC has been streamlined through automated scripts, simplifying on-premises deployments for single-node and five-node configurations. The setup process for cloud installations requires only a single click, automatically integrating all components into the cloud environment.
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RESOURCES & FAQS
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Frequently asked questions
- How does CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification work?
- What customer problems and use cases does DDC address?
- How does the solution help protect data and enforce compliance?
- How does DDC communicate securely with data stores?
- What are the deployment options?
- How does DDC compare with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions?