Tag: Data classification

Organizations today store enormous amounts of data. To protect their business and comply with strict modern regulations, they need to manage and secure it properly. Ideally, every document would receive equal protection, but this approach is unrealistic both financially and operationally....

Your Salesforce Org stores a lot of sensitive information — and to help you properly protect it, the platform introduced a built-in data classification tool as a part of its '19 summer release. The tool allows you to add data classification tags to any field in a standard or custom object,...

For several years now, Salesforce has been the CRM of choice for ambitious organizations. The platform’s many benefits — including its customizability and extensive app ecosystem — makes it extremely capable of growing alongside rapidly evolving organizations. The result is that, for many,...

Your Salesforce Org stores a ton of sensitive information; keeping things compliant and private — while still maintaining the pace of change — requires resources that most teams don’t have.  A big part of the problem is visibility. If you don’t know what, or where, your most...

The loss of critical, and often sensitive, information can severely impact the profitability and innovation of your organization — and with consumer awareness of data protection on the rise, it’s no surprise that data security has become a mandatory responsibility for organizations running...

Data classification is essential for achieving, maintaining and proving compliance with a wide range of regulations and standards. For example, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX and GDPR all have different purposes and requirements, but data classification is necessary for compliance with all of them — after...

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked by customers if we can help them apply sensitivity labels at scale to data at rest in SharePoint Online. Unfortunately, I've had to tell them that there’s really only one option, and it’s not pretty. To date, there is no API that allow an end...

Making sure your environment is compliant with regulatory requirements can be a challenge. No matter your company’s size or industry, ensuring you have the required security controls is never a set-it-and-forget-it process. With your IT environment, your user base and the threat landscape...

Data loss prevention (DLP) tools and processes help ensure that critical data is not accessed by or tampered with by unauthorized users. The underlying technology that can make or break your success in data loss prevention is data classification. This article explains how data classification...

What Is Data Classification? Simply put, data classification is the process of categorizing files, databases and other content into logical groupings according to their content. For example, a data classification process might distinguish between public information and various types of...