The EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) spring 2018implementation is just around thecorner, leaving many legal professionals racing to understandhow it will affect everything from legal holds todiscovery. And in the process, many are coming to see thebenefits of having an informationgovernance program in place to ensure ongoing compliance.
Legal technology firms know this race to handle data well, andas the GDPR gets closer to becoming a reality, more and more arepositioning their compliance tools to capitalize on companiesgrowing information governance anxiety and demands. The latestentrant in the market is Informatica, which recently announcedInformatica Data Governance & Compliance for GDPR.
Legaltech News spoke with Jitesh Ghai, general manager of dataquality and governance at Informatica, to examine just how thecompany has positioned its products to support GDPR compliance.
What it is: Informaticas Data Governance &Compliance Solution for GDPR refers to a set of old and newcapabilities in various Informatica solutions that, when usedtogether, help companies understand and address their GDPRrisk.
Among these products include Informatica Secure@Source, whichdiscovers and visually maps sensitive data within an enterprise,and Informamtica Axon, a data governance platform that allows usersto put policies on where and how data is accessed. Also included isInformatica Enterprise Information Catalog, which searches andclassifies all unstructured data within a company.
All these products are powered by an artificial intelligence(AI) engine that leverages machine learning to better whatunderstand and classify the types of data an organizationholds.
How it works: Those starting off their GDPRcompliance efforts can use Informaticas data cataloging ability tofirst make [their] data consumable through indexing all theirdata from multiple repositories, Ghai said. He added that thisprocess is similar to how Google organizes the internet byindexing the internet and applying relevancy, thereby making datasearchable.
One the data is indexed, Informatica will highlight what dataholds sensitive information, such as personal identifiableinformation (PII), that needs to be protected and properly managedunder the GDPR, using the Secure@Source platform.
Ghai noted that this data can be shown through a data heatmap that uses different colors to indicate various levels of datasensitivity and protections around that data, such as accesscontrols. Using all this information, Informatica looks provide aGDPR risk score, quantifying how compliant an organization is tothe regulations various demands.