An organization’s sensitive information includes intellectual property, trade secrets, consumer information, and financial data. While protecting data from misuse is difficult, unstructured data types are often the hardest to manage. Unstructured data resides in documents, spreadsheets, and email messages, unlike structured data in databases and fixed formats. This unstructured data can also include image, audio, and video files not organized or segregated within a defined resource, such as a file share or document management system. This guide teaches organizations:
- How to protect unstructured data to bolster their competitive advantage
- Where their unstructured data lives and how it's used throughout its life cycle
- How to implement a phased data protection program that respects business processes while iteratively decreasing risk to unstructured sensitive information
Fortra has developed a data protection model to control unstructured data by identifying and applying policy-based controls over the data’s lifecycle. Digital Guardian DLP provides organizations with tools to classify unstructured information automatically, analyze its uses and risks, and enforce user-specific policies with precision and persistence.