Healthcare & Life Sciences

Content Collaboration Platform capabilities: Friend or foe?

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Syncplicity is an important ally for enterprises determined to protect their Content Collaboration Platform capabilities. It can be highly sensitive content like PII–personally identifiable information. Or, perhaps something less sensitive, such as public data on a website. Either way, if there’s a breach, and that’s never good.

If you want your business to remain viable and competitive, security matters. But to maintain a high level of content security, experience matters. That’s where Syncplicity comes in. As a company with experience managing millions of files for our customers using our content collaboration platform capabilities, we take data protection very seriously. This is why we’ve become such a valued ally to so many.

Content Collaboration Platform capabilities

Fact is, Axway Syncplicity recently received one of the highest scores for security capability in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities Research for Content Collaboration Platforms–especially in use cases involving Centralized Content Protection. And this comes just as regulatory compliance is heating up.

With Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)(learn here how the GDPR overshadows Shadow IT) taking effect in May 2018, and directives such as PrivacyShield in the U.S., data security and content protection are top of mind for enterprises around the globe. And they’re looking to the cloud for answers.

Securing sensitive content

Keeping sensitive content secure is a big part of a company’s overall data protection strategy. With Syncplicity’s DLP integration capability, organizations are moving sensitive and confidential content to the cloud to enforce security policies. And they’re doing it by leveraging their existing DLP solution.

Syncplicity integrates with top DLP solution providers, including leaders in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP), to give customers a seamless, reliable way to manage sensitive content–including files stored in Syncplicity. Symantec Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, and McAfee DLP Prevent, are some of the trusted brands Syncplicity integrates with.

How does this work? Well, organizations can now leverage their existing DLP infrastructure to detect when sensitive content is added to Syncplicity. Access to files and sharing is restricted based on DLP classification. Classification is done in the DLP engine, which identifies what is considered sensitive whether it’s personally identifiable data (PII), health records, intellectual property, or customer or partner information.

Through this integration, companies can enforce file and folder sharing restrictions based on corporate policies, allowing them to adhere to strict security and compliance regulations and requirements. For example, Sara in HR can see PII of employees in, say, the U.S., but other U.S. employees can’t. At the same time, Sara is unable to view PII associated with employees in Europe. Companies can customize policies based on region, employee type and department. And these policies are easily adjusted by approved teams using an administrative console.

Insider threats and cyber crimes

Regulatory compliance is a key reason for DLP solutions and strategies, but there are other business drivers. Insider threats and cyber crimes such as those involving ransomware jeopardize business operations and may put your organization out of compliance with regional or industry regulations. Exposure to ransomware is particularly costly because it not only affects business operations but will also carry a stiff, 4 percent fine for breaking GDPR mandates starting in May 2018.

Syncplicity lets you track user behavior and recover files with their Content Collaboration Platform capabilities. Combine this with your existing DLP capability, and you’ll have a much more comprehensive solution–one that secures sensitive data, applies policies to that data, tracks user behavior (digital footprint), and lets you recover from internal or external content breaches.

Learn more about how we can help you protect your sensitive content with advanced data protection solutions that combine your existing DLP capabilities with Syncplicity. To learn more about how Syncplicity provides customers with Advanced Data Protection, click here.

To learn more about DLP, click here.