Make a case for Data Classification in your organization

Make a case for
data classification in
your organization
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June 22,2016

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Agenda
1 Introductions & “House Rules”
2 Business Context & Challenges
3 Data Classification is key
4 Data Classification is Evolving
5 First Generation tools “User Driven”
6 Second Generation tools “User Friendly”
7 Use Case on policy driven rules
8 RightsWATCH Audit Trail
9 Q&A andWrap-up

Introductions
Dick Olsen House Rules
 You are muted centrally. You don’t need to
mute/unmute yourself
 This webinar is being recorded. You’ll have access to it
On-demand at www.watchfulsoftware.com/en/resources
 The Q&A session will be at the end. You are welcomed
to enter questions anytime, using the Questions feature
in the GoToWebinar control panel
Dick Olsen serves as the marketing
lead for Watchful Software and is
responsible for brand positioning and
messaging.

1 Securing data and company secrets has become increasing difficult
2 40% of enterprises will experience data breach this year
3 Data breaches damage reputations, customers and employees
4 Corporate security policies are often complex and difficult for users to understand
Business Context & Challenges

Data Classification is the most effective step to securing your data
• Securing Data as it is created through
Classification is the most effective step in
securing your data
• Works at the point of creation
• Is driven by your corporate policies
• Determines who can see the data before it is
shared

Policy-driven Classification
data is truly sensitive?
should have access to it?
is the data to be handled?
should the classification change?
What
Who
How
When
should the data be protected?Where

Data classification tools are evolving to become more effective
• Data classification tools are evolving to
become more effective
• As a data security professional it is your
responsibility to continually upgrade your
solutions
• Most employees do not know or care much
about protecting data
• “It is somebody else's job”
• It is time consuming and complicated to
comply with policies

First Generation User Driven Data Classification Products
• First generation classification tools are
classified as “user driven”
• Required in-depth understanding of your
corporate security policies
• User judgement calls
• Drop down questions
• Classification errors
• Incomplete compliance
• Result in Leaks

Second Generation User Friendly Automated Systems
• RightsWATCH is a user friendly automated
system that works to classify your data in
compliance with your security guidelines
• Digitizes your corporate classification
guidelines to automate designation of data
• Properly classifies information when it is
created so it is handled appropriately
• Streamlines and simplifies the user experience
• Relieves the end user from the need to
understand and apply corporate policies
• Makes your existing infrastructure work better
• Improves compliance
• Works on new and legacy files

RightsWATCH reads data as it is being created
• RightsWATCH reads data as it is being created
by your users
• Applies your classification policies and assigns
the correct classification real time
• Eliminates errors
• If authorized, enables classification override

Use Cases on Policy-driven Rules
1. Emails are automatically classified based on:
1) to whom is the email being sent
2) which content is written in the email
3) which files are attached to it
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Content, Context and
Metadata aware
Policy-driven Rules

2. RightsWATCH’s Global Protector dynamically scans legacy data files and automatically
classifies ALL files in that repository, enforcing the policy rules.
Global Protector
Server

3. A user is prevented from saving a document to an unauthorized location and/or with
unauthorized content. RightsWATCH blocks the file from being saved and shows the user the
reason why.
Warn/Block
Rules

RightsWatch provides an audit trail
• RightsWATCH provides a comprehensive
audit trail
• Documents and traces any authorized or
unauthorized access to confidential data
• Provides real time information detailing who
is doing what, when and how with classified
information
• Enables organizations to improve regulatory
compliance

RightsWATCH Summary
• RightsWATCH automated systems represent a
significant upgrade to earlier user driven
products
• Data classification in compliance with
corporate protocols at the point of creation is
an essential step in the plan to secure data
• Early tools are complicated and failed to gain
user support and usage proved minimal
• RightsWATCH automated policy driven
product streamlines the user experience
• RightsWATCH improves your existing security
infrastructure and compliance
• RightsWATCH is necessary upgrade to protect
your data

Check out the “Resources” area on www.watchfulsoftware.com and watch
short product walkthrough demonstrations of how RightsWATCH address a
comprehensive set of use cases
E-mail info@watchfulsoftware.com to request a demo of RightsWATCH
This webinar is being recorded.You’ll have access to it On-demand at
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