Discover your sensitive data in the cloud with eDiscovery
There’s no way to protect your sensitive data without first knowing what you have and where it is.
By Paul Rummery, Securenet Consulting
"Identify and protect your data in the cloud"
Why you need eDiscovery tools and services to understand your data in the cloud
Data in the Cloud means regulation and legal risk
You may be among the many organisations who are considering deploying enterprise file synchronisation and sharing solutions or cloud repositories to empower your mobile workers, implement BYOD policies, and support collaboration - To enable their users to have access to data anywhere and to easily share that information and collaborate with their colleagues, partners and customers.
Information is increasingly the subject of regulation. From EU GDPR dictating the nations deemed fit to hold EU Citizen data, to UK Government regulating how protectively marked information must be treated, or a hundred other industry specific regulations on how and where information can be stored, a poorly planned cloud migration project will expose your organisation to substantial additional regulatory and financial risk.
What data should you migrate or store in the cloud?
With continued news headlines regarding breaches of online / data security, it is not surprising that security is seen as the number one barrier to Cloud computing’s wider adoption. Business and organisation leaders recognise that security and data privacy are part of their responsibilities – yet breaches continue to happen. So what can be done, to provide confidence to business leaders that they know where their sensitive data resides and report on the integrity of the data, track it over history, secure the data, log and make audit records for governance and compliance – providing the organisation and individual business leaders protection from persecution in the event of a breach or hack.
Data typically will be viewed by an organisations data investigators through the magnifying glass of more traditional or well-understood forms, such as email and e-files stored on the company’s servers, file shares, laptops or mass storage devices. But more advanced / next-generation e-discovery solutions can also refer to cloud data storage, SaaS applications, cloud email, social media, personal mobile devices and other systems hosted by the cloud provider.
Stream line what data you send to the cloud
Understanding what information you have, where it is, how old it is and who has access to it enables you to make sense of your unstructured information and prioritise what information should be de-duplicated, what should be archived, what should be deleted and what should be carried forward to your new cloud infrastructure.
Benefits and features you can expect from eDiscovery solutions
IT, HR and Legal Search data discovery
Cut the time and cost of your eDiscovery processes
Identify sensitive data so that your security team can optimise security policies and secure data
Centralised 360 degree view of your data
Collect from Box, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Microsoft Office 365, and Google Drive
On-premise, Cloud, laptops, smartphones, tablets
Data investigations that do not hinder end-users
Tamper proof audit logs
Discover and categorise all the cloud applications being accessed by your organisation, identify risk, and analyse usage of your network resources
Flexible integration with third-party data sources such as application white list or threat intelligence solutions.
Contact SecureNet Consulting today for solutions advice, engineering, support, professional services and proof of concept resources for eDiscovery.
