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Building a modern data registry: Go beyond data classification

April 19, 2019

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For organizations, understanding what data they store and analyze is gaining increasing urgency due to new privacy regulations, from the Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD). But these regulations are not the only reason organizations are focused on privacy.

Security imperatives and pressure to extract more value from the information they store has also put pressure on companies to get data privacy right. Historically, organizations have invested in a variety of technologies to inventory their physical assets, such as servers and PCs, but lacked adequate technology to find, map and inventory data assets.

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