Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

POPIA emphasizes the importance of accountability and transparency in handling personal information. Fortra DLP supports this by maintaining detailed audit trails and providing comprehensive reporting on data access and handling activities. These audit logs are crucial for demonstrating compliance during audits and investigations, as they provide a clear record of who accessed personal information, when, and for what purpose.

Fortra’s Data Classification solutions help you comply with POPIA regulations by discovering, identifying, and classifying emails and files at the point of creation or in on-premise and cloud-based file shares to ensure compliant policy enforcement. 

Consistent application of data protection policies is a core requirement under POPIA. Fortra DLP automates the enforcement of these policies, ensuring that data protection measures are applied uniformly across all systems and processes. 

POPIA requires organizations to notify the Information Regulator and affected individuals in case of a data breach involving personal information. Fortra DLP facilitates this by providing advanced tools for the rapid detection and response to security incidents. By quickly identifying potential breaches and triggering appropriate responses, organizations can mitigate the impact of a breach and comply with POPIA’s breach notification requirements

Under POPIA, personal information collected and retained by organizations is subject to deletion. It can be difficult to guarantee all personal data is deleted if it has been exported to files outside the central database. The metadata that Fortra Data Classification Suite (DCS) applies to files helps enable your organization to locate files that should be deleted for compliance purposes, no matter where they are stored.