| IPR Protection |
IPR is important for any firm whether it’s large or small. And most of the IPR are stored on personal computers which is susceptible to theft. SDS finds out how much of IPR is exposed on each of the machines in a network and provides the remediation to protect it. Even if the company does regular vulnerability assessment (VA) and penetration testing (PT) on the network but still the data is used by the insiders and it is in their hand how they deal with it and where they store it. VA and PT will not tell any firm whether IPR is exposed or not. |
Data Risk
Assessment | The report generated by SDS gives the information about the confidential and sensitive data which is exposed in an organization. Using this information firm can carry out a data risk assessment as what could happen if they lose this data and what measures should they take to avoid it. |
Data Usage
Surveillance |
SDS and associated services can track what kind of data is being used by whom, thus providing a real-time surveillance on data usage. The product is shipped with a standard database to detect confidential information like legal documents, finance data, sales data etc, but at the same time a user can customize the product to treat his/her data as confidential. For example for a job recruitment consulting firm a repository of resumes could be important which needs to be tracked over and above the other standard confidential categories. |
Compliance
and
Regulations
Assurance
| As SDS can generate tickets on data leakage incidents and can block unauthorized confidential data access, it helps firms get complained to security standards. This benefit might not be appealing for domestic customers but in US and Europe Market, there is a huge stress on compliance and regulations assurance for firms dealing with sensitive data of the customers. |
Protection of
sensitive
information | Other than finding, tracking and protecting confidential information for a firm, SDS can also protect sensitive information for the firms and its employees like credit card numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, customer data, client list, debit card numbers, Social Security numbers etc. Information like email addresses and phones numbers if stolen in bulk can give rise to spam. |
Protection of
Brand and
Reputation | The customer data for an organization is as important as its own data. Thus it is the responsibility of the firm to take care of the confidentiality of its customer data. Loss of customer data can lead to loss in brand and reputation of the firm resulting in loss in customer faith and thus loss in sales. |
