Protect Your Essential Data for Security and Compliance
Data protection is fundamental to an organization’s security operations, but implementing a data protection plan is complex, and making mistakes can derail objectives and leave your company vulnerable.
At AdaptivEdge, we’re ready to help your company create and manage a comprehensive data security strategy that aligns with your unique needs. Whether it’s data classification, gaining buy-in from stakeholders, or managing the process from end to end, our experts can tackle all your data protection challenges.
Data Protection Simplified
Every organization has critical data that should be safeguarded against extrication or access by unauthorized users. This often includes:
- Data that falls under compliance laws (HIPPA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and CCPA)
- Intellectual property (e.g., business plans, product designs)
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Planned workforce reductions
Compliance regulations prohibit the unauthorized sharing of sensitive data. In these cases, data protection is mandatory; violations can result in millions of dollars in fines and lawsuits. However, even when security isn’t required by law, your organization could still lose significant revenue if intellectual property is stolen.
The Risk of Dark Data
Most organizations lack visibility into their data estate, and the situation is only getting worse. As the amount of data grows and the number of devices accessing it multiplies, the challenge of managing data increases exponentially.
Microsoft reports that 93% of an organization’s data is “dark data,” which is unknown in nature, has an unknown level of sensitivity or confidentiality, and is not monitored when shared internally or externally. This dark data represents a significant security and compliance risk for organizations and is a primary reason why a firm information protection strategy is critical.
Insider Risk
Insider Risk refers to potential threats that originate from within an organization, such as IP theft, data leakage, fraud, and sabotage. Beyond the more extreme examples of fraud and sabotage, it’s all too common for employees to download customer information or confidential files before leaving an organization.
Even more common is inadvertent Insider Risk, where employees unwittingly share sensitive information with unauthorized users or by insecure means. Many employees do not understand what constitutes sensitive data or the policies governing sharing that data. A centralized information protection plan can automate policy enforcement and restrictions and provide continued education to employees with access to sensitive data.
AI is Compounding the Risk
Generative AI is reshaping every industry and organization worldwide. However, AI’s ability to ingest large amounts of data and make that information available to anyone via large language models dramatically increases the risk of data leakage. Avoiding AI is not a feasible option, emphasizing data security and information governance even more.
Build & Optimize Your Data Privacy Policy
AdaptivEdge takes a holistic approach to managing data protection. Our certified staff has the experience and expertise you need to streamline the development of your data privacy policies, whether from scratch or by optimizing established processes.
AdaptivEdge can help your company:
- Identify and define sensitive data and the business processes they touch.
- Run sensitive data scans in Microsoft 365.
- Lead data classification design and documentation efforts.
- Work alongside the information protection steering committee to ensure the project stays on track.
- Determine where encryption, restricted access rights, and other protective actions should be taken.
- Create and implement data loss prevention policies.
Get Seamless Data Protection Post-Implementation
Once data protection policies are implemented, companies often struggle to keep them up-to-date. Without ongoing monitoring, optimization, and security response, data security efforts become less effective and put your company at risk.
AdaptivEdge provides monitoring, maintenance, and management services, extending your data protection team to detect compromises and ensure compliance requirements are being met.
Our capabilities include:
- Reviewing alerts and logs to understand trends and escalate incidents.
- Uncovering business processes that don’t align with data loss and protection policies.
- Reviewing policies to verify compliance.
- Identifying users that are frequently contributing to incidents.
- Fine-tuning policies to keep up with evolving business operations.
Having specialized expertise at your fingertips helps you maintain your data privacy foundation. It makes it easier to manage data when adopting new software or processes, ultimately helping you better manage costs, save time, and keep you more secure.
Compliance Management
Many organizations must pass compliance audits to ensure they correctly safeguard sensitive information. By leveraging Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, AdaptivEdge can help organizations manage compliance audits and ensure regulatory compliance effectively. Compliance Manager provides a detailed overview of the current compliance score and improvement actions.
Incident Management
Proactive measures are the best defense, but data leakage and exfiltration are still bound to happen occasionally. AdaptivEdge can help organizations recover and remove access to inappropriately shared data in these cases. Microsoft Purview integrates with Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Sentinel to provide a unified incident management experience. This allows for improved triaging, advanced hunting, and built-in remediation actions on users, files, and devices.
Meet Your Data Privacy Consultant
Eddie Alvarez will be your go-to for data security, protection, and privacy expertise. With experience in network administration, data centers, and Microsoft technology, he can handle your organization’s information protection, regardless of how you store your data.
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