Fortra for Data Classification

Manage and protect your data with the industry’s most flexible and customizable classification metadata schema. Give your data context so people and systems understand how to handle sensitive information.

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Enhance Your Data Security With Data Classification

Fortra Data Classification provides straightforward classification capabilities that clearly inform both your people and your policy-enforcement solutions on what information should to secure and how to handle it.  

Our solutions allow you to both manage and protect your data with the industry’s most flexible and customizable classification metadata schema. By giving your data context — via persistent metadata — both users and downstream cybersecurity solutions will understand how to properly handle the information, enabling more complete data protection and less compliance complexity. 

Fortra Data Classification embeds these persistent metadata attributes into emails, documents, and files at every stage of the content lifecycle and can automatically add visual markings to help organizations meet sophisticated compliance and legal requirements.

Powerful Data Identification Capabilities  

Fortra’s AI-powered Classification Engine leverages pattern matching, machine learning categorization, and automated data detection to identify and classify sensitive data. By embedding persistent metadata in sensitive emails, documents, and files, our robust solution goes beyond mere labeling, supporting unified policy enforcement and compliance precision.

 

PRODUCT SUMMARY

Fortra Data Classification helps organizations understand and protect sensitive information by providing: 

  • AI-powered data discovery and classification 

  • Persistent, granular classification metadata 

  • User-driven and automated classification 

  • Flexible, customizable policy enforcement 

  • Cloud and on-premises data coverage 

  • Support for diverse files and data types 

  • Integration with DLP and other security tools 

  • Consistent protection across the data lifecycle

Support for Multiple Environments and Data Types

For a data classification solution to be effective, it needs to cover all the bases. Fortra Data Classification works wherever you work, however you work, within the workflows your users are accustomed to, and with the tools your teams use every day — in both Windows and Mac environments. 

Furthermore, our solution classifies the files and data types you use every day, going beyond emails and office documents to include PDFs, JPGs, and business-specific file types. Fortra Data Classification discovers and classifies sensitive data in both cloud-based and on-premise file shares organizations rely on to operate 24/7, leveraging AI classifiers to detect:

Bank statements
Tax forms
Source code
Person names
Employment contracts & agreements
Network configuration files
Budget reports
Postal addresses
Health identifiers

Add Accuracy to the Data Protection Tools You Already Use

Files classified with Fortra Data Classification gain persistent, granular, rich metadata that better informs downstream policy enforcement solutions like DLP and CASB to reduce false positives and unlock the business value of your data, while integrations with leading encryption vendors take the guesswork out of rights management. In short, our solution protects your data so you can use it rather than avoid it. 

Enterprise-Grade Policy Engine  

While some solutions lock customers into policies that are limited to common use cases and regulations, Fortra’s classification capabilities are backed by the industry’s most flexible policy engine, which includes additional capabilities to support custom conditions and actions that allow any organization to create relevant and rightsized data protection policies.

One Solution for Multiple Use Cases

Fortra Data Classification Suite (DCS) packages all of our robust data classification capabilities into a single, straightforward solution that addresses several common classification-related uses cases, including:

Fortra DCS for Outlook Web App

Email continues to be the primary method for sharing information among employees, customers, and partners; presenting a challenge for organizations that must protect information assets while promoting information sharing. Fortra DCS for Outlook Web App (OWA) is a security and governance solution that ensures email messages are classified before being sent. Flexible classification options enable user- driven, system-suggested, or automatic application of the classification based on the recipient, sender, and content.

Fortra DCS for Desktop

The disclosure of sensitive information and intellectual property in PDFs, videos, images, and design documents presents genuine challenges. With only a few clicks, users can copy sensitive files from their desktop to email, USB drives, instant messages, and other data leakage points. Fortra DCS for Desktop provides the first step in protecting sensitive files from data leakage. By enabling users to assign classifications to any file, Fortra DCS for Desktop identifies the value and sensitivity of information so organizations can manage, secure, and share that information.

Fortra DCS One

DCS One allows organizations to identify the value of their data and manage it accordingly, ensuring Office documents are classified before they can be saved, printed, or sent via email. Flexible classification options enable user-driven, system-suggested, or automatic application of the classification based on the content, author, and other document attributes. 

Fortra DCS for Data at Rest

With more people accessing and storing files in a multitude of network and cloud repositories, sensitive data could be just about anywhere. Fortra DCS for Data at Rest (DaR) scans file storage, including on-premise file shares, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint Online. It examines and automatically classifies the files it discovers, ensuring appropriate data protection is applied. As it scans files, DCS gathers extensive information about each file, building a data inventory for you to run analytics to identify risk areas.

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