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Purpose-built
data security and privacy software
data security and privacy software
Significantly mitigate risk by automating the finding and securing of sensitive information with our data protection solutions.
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Are you managing the cost of DSARs?
Find out how much you might be wasting with your current processing of Data Subject Access Requests.
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Massive amounts of data, bad actors & increased global regulations
Protecting client, customer & employee data is a necessity. Over the last few years we’ve seen an enormous increase in the amount of sensitive information being collected as well as a proliferation of user data regulations across the globe.
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ANNUAL SALARY
NI NUMBER
18.8
In the first half of 2021, the number of data records exposed during 1,767 data breaches.
£2.85M
Cost of a data breach for a company, and over the next 24 months, more than one-quarter of businesses will experience a recurring material breach.
72 hours
The amount of time your company has to address a data breach before catastrophic damages can occur.
Our proprietary data redaction software can be used across a range of departments and job functions within your organisation to help locate, secure & control data
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93%
quicker than current methods
~£143K
average savings in Year 1
40B+
name combinations recognised
93%
quicker than current methods
~£143K
average savings in Year 1
40B+
name combinations recognised
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Ni number
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Three steps for protecting your data
Locate
- Automatically scan millions of pages in minutes, avoiding hundreds of hours of human effort
- Leverage pattern matching technology to rapidly locate sensitive information
- Find information held in unstructured file formats located on premise or in the cloud
Secure
- Apply a redaction mask or anonymisation to data files to protect sensitive data including personal identifiable information (PII)
- Easily redact third-party information relating to data subjects for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
- Leverage tokenised redaction for secure data transfers then remove redactions upon receipt
Control
- Gain ultimate control of the information you hold with our data privacy solutions
- Extend control beyond digital data to include physical data via approved partners like Mimecast and Relativity
- Classify information to understand what types of PII (e.g., credit card, phone, name, etc.) create risk
Purpose-built solutions for all
your compliance needs
DSAR
Facilitates compliant and timely responses to Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) by automatically identifying and redacting data subjects and PI.
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Indexer
Scans network drives and data repositories in the background to accelerate data subject and PII searches
API
Supports clients seeking to integrate DSAR, PI Protect and Indexer with other software
PI Protect
Finds and anonymise personal information in unstructured data, including most popular file types, using pattern matching.
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Indexer
Scans network drives and data repositories in the background to accelerate data subject and PII searches
API
Supports clients seeking to integrate DSAR, PI Protect and Indexer with other software
Secure the room. Redact the contract.
When you're making a deal, protecting your assets from internal and external threats is vital. With threat levels increasing every day, securing your information requires a combination of advanced prevention and response solutions.
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The virtual data
room built for deals
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Locate. Secure. Control.
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