Ensure Data Compliance with One Simple Framework

When you deal with data (and who doesn’t these days?), security is paramount for preventing breaches and preserving your good reputation. But unless compliance is baked into your security strategy from the earliest planning phases, you’re not setting yourself up for long-term success.

Compliance with data security and data privacy regulations is only becoming more complicated, with a proliferation of new laws around the world attempting to grapple with developments such as cloud computing and generative AI. To address this accelerating trend, we’ve published The Practical Guide to Mastering Data Compliance. This free resource orients you within the current regulatory landscape and introduces you to a framework you can use to structure your data security operations. All the information contained in the guide is presented from a compliance perspective, allowing an end-to-end view of how compliance fits into your security strategy.

Frameworks help organizations manage data compliance

As detailed in the guide, we have entered a more challenging period of data compliance, with 137 countries in the world having data privacy and security regulations in place. Add to this the existence of industry-specific regulations and the possibility of operating in countries with different or conflicting regulatory requirements, and compliance activities start to look increasingly complicated.

Fortunately, there are standards, frameworks and best practices available to help navigate the turbulent waters of data compliance. The guide touches on widely recognized resources such as NIST 2.0 before introducing readers to the Data Security Everywhere framework devised by Forcepoint. This approach focuses on protecting data throughout its lifecycle and at all points from which it can be accessed, and compliance plays a key role in every step. Even if you’re familiar with Data Security Everywhere, it’s worth consulting if you want to approach the topic from a compliance perspective.

5 steps to success in data compliance

The Practical Guide to Mastering Data Compliance walks you through each of the five steps of Data Security Everywhere, those being:

• Discover where your sensitive data resides
• Classify data to make policies and reporting consistent
• Prioritize where to focus data security efforts the most
• Remediate identified vulnerabilities and risks
• Protect intellectual property and regulated data everywhere

This process is comprehensive and repeatable, starting with achieving visibility and control over all the data held by your organization. At the end of each step, you’ll find a list of tools and capabilities available to support your compliance activities.

Find the right solutions for your data compliance needs

The guide explains what types of data security solutions are necessary for the Data Security Everywhere approach, with descriptions at the end of the relevant Forcepoint solutions that can help you achieve visibility and control over all your sensitive data wherever it resides. You’ll learn how you can apply protections to data-at-rest, data-in-use and data-in-motion, with built-in compliance templates and industry-leading protections for regulated data.

Download The Practical Guide to Mastering Data Compliance now for access to an actionable approach for overcoming regulatory challenges and safeguarding your organization’s future.