Data discovery is very usefull if you are planning to search for PII that is residing at various locations* in the organization. I would like to expand few terms mentioned here.
PII - Personally Identifiable Information like SSN, Name, Address, Phone, email etc., in combination of one or more items.
*Locations - File servers, application servers, Databases, Websites, Mainframes, AS400 systems etc.
But why is it necessary to search for SSNs, customer names and their credit card numbers in the organization? The answer is, more and more companies are looking forward to protect your personal data and make sure that it will not be leaked to malicious users and to be in compliance with current regulations. So, companies use data discovery processes to discover this sensitive data. Once all these locations where sensitive data resides is known, management team can take appropriate actions to protect this data. The other main use of data discovery (e-discovery) is to enforce data retention rules required by various regulations.
Continue visiting, I am planning to write an article on how to discover data across multiple platforms.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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