Practice data access governance

Ensure everyone can’t access everything

Organizations need to remain in compliance with data use and entitlement policies driven by external regulations as well as internal audits. Data Insight ensures compliance by giving you the power to review and manage access controls without IT assistance. Plus, you can automate the process of user access or entitlements review—a requirement for regulatory compliance.

• Create a detailed audit trail of who accessed which data and when they made changes
• Identify the data owners and custodians you need to engage for policy and compliance efforts
• Leverage data ownership identifications and access permissions visibility for entitlements review
• Use a flexible query interface for business process integration and support for third-party applications and workflows

Investigate user risk

Identify malicious versus unusual behaviors

Although anomalous behavior can often be benign, in some cases it indicates employees, vendors, or contractors who are acting in a malicious—or at least a suspicious—manner. Big data analytics in Data Insight provide the power and process for advanced anomaly detection on a big data cluster. This process lets administrators capture file and user activity for billions of actions and use big data capabilities to create trend lines and identify strange outliers.

• Apply a user-centric lens to your unstructured data
• Enable administrators to monitor and track the file activity, access, and behavior trends of particular employees
• Search and track access permission changes to gain insights into access and compliance risks

Protect against data theft and exposure

Expose the risks hidden in your data

Keeping up with storage costs is just one challenge of enterprise data growth. With petabytes of information scattered across the globe, it’s difficult to guess where the risks in your information are hiding and what potential liability or exposure your organization may have. And without visibility into your information, latent risks may be more damaging than any server or infrastructure costs.

• Prioritize risky data with easy-to-interpret User Risk Scores
• Access justification and confidence level information for potential threats through the User Risk Dossier
• Proactively identify hot spots with advanced algorithmic anomaly identification

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Meet new regulatory requirements

Ensure visibility and monitoring of personal data use

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a fundamental reshaping of how organizations need to manage, process, and store the personal data of EU citizens. It places appropriate controls around the use of collected personal data, dictates requirements to comply with those controls, and defines substantial fines to be levied in the event of noncompliance. That means your organization must be able to identify the entire inventory of an individual’s data, access its risk status, and monitor it for noncompliance.

• Create a detailed audit trail of who accessed which data and when they made changes to document the confidentiality and integrity of data access for compliance
• Identify data owners and understand your permissions and detailed access history to create an effective data protection process
• Automate the policy application process and engage experts in facilitating decisions with a self-service portal