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Protect What Matters Most - Citizen Sensitive Data

Protect the personal data of our nation’s citizens across complex and critical government networks.

Government officials are responsible for a broad spectrum of citizens’ personal information, from Social Security numbers and tax documents to property deeds and census data. They are also responsible for creating systems to protect that information and ensuring the network infrastructure is safeguarded from attacks, although this is often hampered by complex IT environments and limited budgets and staff.

Over the past few years, the public sector has been hit with ransomware attacks, making essential services, including 911 emergency centers, unavailable. Governments are also at higher risk of hacktivist attacks from groups trying to promote a political or social agenda, not to mention unexpected threats from contractors and employees. Elected leaders may not be aware of the level or types of cyberattacks on their networks, or they may not have teams in place qualified to handle security situations. Cybersecurity ends up being a lower priority compared to funding emergency services and education – until a data breach happens.

Spirion minimizes the risk associated with citizen information and highly sensitive agency data. With accurate visibility into sprawling data repositories, public sector agencies will reduce risk exposure, improve efficiencies, and inform decision-making while facilitating compliance with data protection and privacy legislation, including HIPAA, CJIS, CMMC, PCI-DSS, FERPA, and more.

Reduce risk exposure

Identify, classify, and protect personal data to prevent compromise and misuse.

Improve business efficiencies and decision-making

Enhance security posture by making informed decisions based on business insights.

Facilitate compliance

Facilitate compliance with FISMA, GDPR, GLBA, PCI-DSS, and other relevant data protection laws and regulations.

Trusted by government institutions to safeguard citizens’ data.

3,236

Between 2020 and 2021, 3,236 public sector organizations experienced a data breach.
Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigation

69%

Phishing emails were responsible for 69% of the public sector data breaches that occurred between 2020 and 2021.
Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigation

1-in-5

One in every five cyber incidents in 2019 involved public sector organizations.
Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigation

$1.6M

Data breaches of public sector organizations cost an average of $1.6 million per breach.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020

Meet the requirements of evolving data protection regulations

HIPPAA

Protecting patient health information within organizations

CJIS

Enabling federally mandated data storage, access, and use guidelines for state, local, and federal authorities

CMMC

Audit your systems for CUI data and generate comprehensive CMMC reports

PCI-DSS

Safeguarding payment card data across global transactions

FERPA

Restricting nonconsensual disclosure of education records to preserve student data privacy

Our Data Privacy Management Framework

What if you could automatically and persistently discover, classify, understand, control, and protect sensitive data in a way that ensured compliance but also allowed for business agility? With Spirion, you can.

Discover

The first step in protecting sensitive and personal data is finding all of it — wherever it lives.

As data proliferates, discovery becomes exponentially more difficult. Most organizations have terabytes and petabytes of data spread across servers, laptops, and other devices. Solving the problem requires a Privacy-Grade™ discovery solution with enough breadth to search all locations and depth to find any data type.

With Spirion, you can:

  • Find all structured and unstructured data across all networks, cloud file storage systems, remote file servers, and endpoints
  • Identify sensitive data with 98% accuracy and the lowest false positive rate in the industry and minimize disruptions to business workflow, security, and compliance
  • Minimize the time your analysts spend locating sensitive information over an ever-expanding big data footprint.

Classify

Categorizing sensitive data is no longer enough. You need purposeful classification that’s dynamic and persistent.

Once you have located all of your data, the automated application of persistent labels, tags, and visual markers helps both humans and computers determine its sensitivity and treat it consistently. Classification ensures that only appropriate parties can access sensitive data as it moves through the organization and supports information sharing with other data protection controls.

With Spirion, you can:

  • Automate data classification throughout the data lifecycle for optimal protection and user access
  • Ensure only appropriate staff members can access critical and sensitive data
  • Save time applying data compliance and security rules and eliminate human error risks.

Understand

Build awareness and identify risks across your organization.

After Discovery and Classification are complete, each team can gain a better understanding of its data footprint. A full picture of your data inventory allows you to operationalize data, foster organizational productivity, conduct historical reviews and analysis, ensure competitiveness, and maintain data privacy.

With Spirion, you can:

  • Leverage a comprehensive and intuitive system for command and control of your structured and unstructured data
  • Assure constant and consistent data protection and management
  • Maintain efficient and effective control with access, visualization, and reporting of sensitive data at the business unit, endpoint, and user-level — both on-premises and in the cloud.

Control

Leverage real-time risk remediation for proactive protection.

To secure unprotected data, you need to control who can see it, when they can see it, and what they can do with it during any data lifecycle action – from creation to disposal. Control includes file shredding, redaction, quarantine, reduction of access rights, third-party controls, and role management at the job-role or server administration level.

With Spirion, you can:

  • Reduce regulatory non-compliance risks with continuous, high-strength data protection
  • Integrate preferred data security solutions, including DLP, IRM/DRM, SIEM, firewalls, and encryption
  • Create automated playbooks with a broad, flexible range of remediation actions to save time and ensure consistent treatment of sensitive data types.

Comply

Avoid fines and maintain compliance, even as data privacy regulations evolve.

Consumers can demand the right to know and the right to be forgotten. Contracts with vendors often require data privacy safeguards. Auditors and industry-specific regulators have their own rules about how consumer data is collected, stored, and used. With regulations on the rise, proactive protection is more critical than ever.

Spirion will help you:

  • Gain critical insights about the types of data discovered and classified across your organization
  • Understand where all sensitive data is located and how it’s being protected
  • Make regulatory compliance a proactive aspect of your business operation.

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Discover, protect and comply.

Protect sensitive information with a solution that is customizable to your organizational needs. When your job is to protect sensitive data, you need the flexibility to choose solutions that support your security and privacy initiatives.

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