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Sensitive Content Protection Capabilities

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Sensitive Content Dashboard

Get a clear, real-time view of where sensitive content lives across your data repositories, so you can assess risk instantly, act on exposed data, and stay aligned with your most critical compliance requirements.

Sensitive Content Details

Go beyond visibility to understand risk at the file level. See how many sensitive files exist across folders and subfolders, prioritize protection with clear risk scores, understand applicable cybersecurity and privacy regulations, and identify exactly who can access your most sensitive data.

Content Safeguard Policies

Turn insight into enforcement. Apply data-sharing policies based on content type, risk score, and location in minutes, restrict sharing to authorized users, while supporting flexible exceptions that match your business needs.

Privacy and Compliance Monitoring

Continuously monitor sensitive content subject to cybersecurity and data privacy regulations such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, CPRA, and SOX. Reduce manual workloads with automated labeling, prioritize content with the highest exposure risk, and enforce content classification policies that align with business requirements.

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Egnyte Rockbridge customer success story

Rockbridge: Securing Private Equity Investment Data

Success Metrics:
  • Sensitive data successfully classified for PII, including fingerprint data
  • Reduced compliance reporting processing timeframe by 30 hours per week
  • Received alerts when content was moved into inappropriate locations
“The biggest business accomplishment is the efficiency of freeing up IT resources. Without having to do the labor-intensive work of identifying sensitive content, IT can now concentrate on value-add projects.”
Heather Lohnes

VP of Information Technology

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Ransomware Detection

Detect data that’s impacted by potential ransomware attacks and take immediate action to protect it.

  • Flag activity commonly associated with ransomware
  • Identify and address commonplace ransomware variants
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CPRA Compliance Solutions

Protect at-risk data that’s subject to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

  • Identify and label personal data
  • Perform comprehensive data lifecycle management
  • Determine who accesses sensitive data

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Frequently Asked Questions

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What types of data are classified as sensitive content?

Sensitive content is any information that could cause a financial and/or reputational loss to an organization if it’s not adequately protected. It includes:

  1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as driver’s license, passport, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
  2. Protected Health Information (PHI)
  3. Financial data, including credit card information

How does Sensitive Content Classification help with compliance?

Sensitive content classification helps organizations identify Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and financial data, which are frequently impacted by regulatory compliance requirements.

Can Sensitive Content Classification be used across multiple platforms?

Yes. Egnyte helps organizations identify sensitive content across multiple data platforms and perform classification of sensitive information in those repositories.

How does Sensitive Data Classification integrate with other data security solutions?

Sensitive data classification is a foundational component of a broader data governance program. It works alongside complementary capabilities such as ransomware detection, insider threat detection, and regulatory compliance to help organizations manage and protect data holistically.

Is Sensitive Content Classification suitable for all industries?

Sensitive content classification is applicable for all industries and is mission-critical for organizations in financial services, life sciences, legal, and defense.

What’s the business risk of not employing a confidential data classification program?

Companies that don’t pursue confidential data classification programs face extreme risk including:

  • Regulatory fines for non-compliance, when Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Protected Health Information (PHI) are leaked
  • Heightened likelihood of malicious insider threat activity
  • Legal action from consumers and industry groups, in the event of a data breach

Can classification of sensitive information be automated?

Yes, classification of sensitive information can be performed with AI-powered data governance platforms like Egnyte.

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