Governance Risk and Compliance

Tackle the complexities of unstructured data and data sprawl with a proven approach to assessing and designing a Data Security Governance Program tailored to your specific requirements.

Design a Tailored Data Security Governance Program

Our data security governance services assist your organization in creating a comprehensive program that helps prevent costly issues such as unauthorized access, data exfiltration, brand reputation damage, and non-compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies. We work with you to develop a customized solution that strengthens your security posture and ensures long-term protection.

Proven Strategies for Data Discovery

Our Data Security Governance Program employs the latest data security technologies and developments in the field of data governance to perform comprehensive data discovery within your environment. We provide tailored recommendations to build a program that aligns with your needs, including:

  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) systems
  • Data in Transit & at Rest
  • Data protection technologies like encryption, data masking, and data sanitization
  • Data restriction tools such as 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) detection tools

These strategies ensure that your data governance program is robust, effective, and designed to protect sensitive information across your organization.

Building a Sensitive Data Catalog

For organizations just starting to protect data from potential threats, we offer Data Identification workshops to help identify sensitive data types within your environment. This includes often overlooked categories such as trade secrets, intellectual property, and sensitive business communications. By identifying these data types, we can create a comprehensive Sensitive Data Catalog tailored to your needs.

Evaluating Your Data Security Governance Program

For organizations with existing Data Security Governance or Data Protection programs, we conduct an assessment to identify areas of non-compliance with policies, gaps in data protection requirements (legal, regulatory, contractual, or business), and evaluate the maturity of your program using the Data Security Maturity Model by the C3 Working Group. Based on this analysis, we provide tailored recommendations for the necessary data governance solutions.

Developing a Data Security Governance Program Strategy

We apply a proven data governance framework and collaborate with your organization’s key stakeholders to design a strategy that aligns with relevant requirements (e.g., NIST CSF). Our approach ensures continuous sensitive data discovery, automated classification and labeling, application of essential data protections (such as encryption), restrictions on the storage and transfer of sensitive data, and enforcement of data retention policies. This comprehensive strategy helps safeguard your sensitive information and maintain compliance across the organization.

Identifying Data in Mergers and Acquisitions

Our data governance consulting services assist in identifying sensitive data within an M&A target or recent acquisition, including its locations, volumes, and access rights. We then conduct penetration testing on the storage repositories where this sensitive data resides to assess the risk of potential data compromise. This process ensures you have a clear understanding of data security risks during the M&A process.