DATA SECURITY GOVERNANCE SERVICES

Know Where Your
Data Is So You Can
Ensure Protection

Address the challenges of unstructured data and data sprawl through a proven process to assess and design a Data Security Governance Program that meets your unique needs.

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DATA SECURITY GOVERNANCE OVERVIEW

Design a Comprehensive and Customized Data Security Governance Program

IDC estimates that by 2025 there will be 175 zettabytes of data globally and that 80% of that data will be unstructured. A lack of Data Security Governance Strategy within your organization can lead to data sprawl and increased risk. 

Our cybersecurity experts can help your organization build a comprehensive Data Security Governance Program to avoid costly consequences like unauthorized access and exfiltration, damage to your brand reputation and non-compliance with laws, regulations and organizational policies. Regardless of your data security governance maturity level, we will design a bespoke strategy that will:

Review Program Requirements & Assess Policies and Controls

Perform Gap Analysis to Inform Program Design and Development

Recommend and Implement Supporting Technologies

Create Operational Processes and Metrics

DATA SECURITY GOVERNANCE OFFERINGS

Leverage Proven Data Discovery Strategies

Our Data Security Governance services leverage new technologies and developments in the data governance field to conduct data discovery in your environment and provide tailored recommendations for solutions to build a program that works for you, including:

  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) systems 
  • Data protection technologies like data encryption, data-masking and data sanitization 
  • Data restriction technologies like Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) systems Secure data disposal and crypto-shredding technologies
  • Data exfiltration monitoring and Behavioral Anomaly (BA) tools
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Identify and Catalog Sensitive Data

For organizations just getting started in the process of protecting their sensitive data, we offer Data Identification workshops to identify sensitive data types in your environment, including often overlooked data types such as trade secrets, intellectual property and sensitive business communications; allowing us to create a Sensitive Data Catalog.

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Assess Your Data Security Governance

For organizations with existing Data Security Governance or Data Protection programs, we assess your program to identify policy non-compliance, gaps in data protection requirements (legal/ regulatory/ contractual/ business) and program maturity levels (using the Data Security Maturity Model by the C3 Working Group).

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Develop Your Data Security Governance Program Strategy

We work with your organization’s key stakeholders to design a program strategy aligned with relevant requirements (e.g. NIST CSF) to deliver ongoing sensitive data discovery, automated classification and labeling, the application of required sensitive data protections (e.g., encryption), restrictions on where sensitive data can be stored and sent and data retention policy enforcement.

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Identify Sensitive Data Within an M&A Target

We help you identify sensitive data within an M&A target or recent acquisition (including locations, amounts and access rights) and then perform penetration testing on the storage repositories where that sensitive data exists to determine the risk of data compromise.

CYBERSECURITY CERTIFICATIONS

Your Elite, Highly-trained Team

Our expert team has decades of experience in building, operating and maintaining comprehensive Data Security Governance programs.
Why GuidePoint?

Highly Trained, Highly Certified

Examples Include:

CISSP
GPS Certified CISA
GPS Certified CISM

ISC2 and ISACA

DATA SECURITY GOVERNANCE OUTCOMES

Minimize the Risk of Data Sprawl

Our Data Security Governance services are designed to help you address the challenges of unstructured data and data sprawl and meet your data governance goals in both on-prem and cloud environments.

Identify and Catalog Sensitive Data

Identify and catalog sensitive data types within your environment.

Assess Your Program

Determine if you have gaps in data protection requirements.

Build/Enhance Your Program

Design a program strategy to discover, classify and protect data.

Your Trusted Advisor

Our team works side-by-side with you as your cybersecurity partner.

“GuidePoint Security is basically family. They’re always there when I need them. At the end of the day GuidePoint is always there to help and that’s how they add value.”

Mark Gilman

Security Manager

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