Digital Reef augments security and data leak prevention (DLP)

Data and Information Security Solutions

Huge volumes of unstructured content amassed within an organization's IT infrastructure create enormous exposure to risk. Organizations are challenged to gain control of data to avoid the negative consequences of security breaches or intellectual property loss. When it comes to data risk, what you don't know can hurt you. And when it comes to unstructured content, most organizations don't know what they don't know.

Insight Into Information Helps Keep It Safe

Understanding the make-up of unstructured content and knowing where it is located are the first steps in creating a data risk profile. But, until now, there was no way to create a single catalog of all the information within an organization.

Digital Reef clears the information management hurdles by providing an organized view into an organization's entire corpus of unstructured content. Digital Reef's technology empowers an organization to know what they have, where it's located and what it means - a true foundation for information governance.

Digital Reef’s Virtual Governance Warehouse creates a single index of an organization's unstructured content - not just the metadata, but all of the content, in all of files that it discovers when it crawls the storage systems, content repositories, and other indices that exist. Digital Reef then adds analytics (e.g. classification, relevancy) that enable organizations to understand the information contained within the documents. The insight that Virtual Governance Warehouse provides makes information actionable and governed.

Digital Reef benefits security and risk management programs via:

• Identification of personal and confidential information - Identifies specific sensitive and/or regulated data, such as Social Security or credit card numbers in documents, spreadsheets, or email
  
• Augmenting Data Leak Prevention (DLP) initiatives - Scans documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and email for sensitive data before they cross the firewall or trigger a DLP event
  
• Providing a "data-at-rest" angle to DLP programs - Finds documents at rest that are similar to one that triggered a DLP event before those documents are involved in a breach
  
• Performing analysis to help identify an appropriate DLP solution, or improve the DLP rules for an existing system
  
• Alerting the right people or applications to potentially risky data before it makes itself known during legal discovery or after a data breach incident occurs