Data Risk assessment
It’s essential to find out whether your business is properly handling sensitive data. Prior to a cyber breach, we can unobtrusively scan a client’s data environment and provide a heat map offering insight into areas of significant risk. This assessment offers records managers, IT professionals, security officers, and executive leadership the confidence that risk is being properly managed.
Advantages
Reducing risk by understanding what exists in your data
Actfore’s Risk Assessment will quickly uncover areas of sensitive data (e.g. social security numbers, health information, passport numbers, non-US national identifiers) giving clients the ability to anticipate their data requirements prior to a cyber incident. The ease and affordability of our risk assessments provide the perfect balance of actionable insight to internal stakeholders and risk-management, giving confidence to decision-makers or compliance committees.
Data Insights
Leveraging cutting edge technologies, our Analysts will uncover the business-critical and sensitive information residing in your entire data estate.
Minimal Disruption
Deploying on-prem or in your privately managed cloud, we give you peace of mind that data won't be analyzed off-site. Scans can further be scheduled for off-peak hours.
Scanning In-place
Most solutions require data lakes, creating a copy of the information, further exacerbating the issues. Actfore tools scan the data in-place, minimizing duplication of data.
Featured Capabilities
Leveraging data insights to minimize organizational risk
At Actfore, our tools can inventory 1 million files per hour and textually analyze 250 thousand documents an hour. With a light-weight touch, we’ll quickly provide you with a heatmap of your sensitive data; giving you the power to swiftly minimize your organizations risk or establish protocols to enact prior to or during a breach.
On-prem, cloud, or off-site analysis
Our tools and team can deploy behind the client firewall or in your private cloud to process data, ensuring no data is processed outside your control mechanisms.
Heatmap by Sensitive Data classification
Our reports will pinpoint areas of concern, with a breakdown of what was found by category so you can systematically begin triage with the highest risk or greatest volume.
Sensitive Data tagging
Should you choose, Actfore can further enhance your ability to leverage data insights through metadata tagging. With appropriate tagging, your Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Identity Access Management (IAM) tools will work more efficiently, saving you time and money.
Retained Risk Assessments
For a small fee, Actfore will utilize its light-touch service on a quarterly, semi-annual, or annual basis to provide you peace of mind and give you access to the data experts who constantly triage data in a variety of environments.
Our Methods
A proven approach to identifying risky data
Planning Phase
Data Analysis
Reporting
Kickoff &
Questions
Meeting to understand organizational structure and current roadmap toward data governance.
Deployment &
Ingestion
Either on-prem or in your cloud, we will deploy our tools and connect to the various data sources. An initial inventory of the data will provide high level findings.
Textual
Analysis
Our AI tools coupled with data analysts will begin textually analyzing the data, giving us insights into what the data is about.
Element
Coupling
With potentially numerous data elements and intellectual property (IP) assests, we will cluster the responsive elements into logical categories to help stack-rank and map risk.
Data review and heatmap design
With potentially millions of files sitting dormant in your estate, we'll work with you to understand what the data is telling us. We can further engage to provide best practices for management or remediation.
Publish report and schedule
After reviewing our findings, we'll look to maintain constant contact. With a customer-centric workforce, we'll look to keep you proactively mitigating risk vs reactively responding to threats.
Why Actfore
Big data experts, looking to shed light on your data
At Actfore, we’re programmers and data experts, we’re not salespeople. Our team of experts are focused on uncovering the answers scattered across your data. Let us handle your data challenges with speed and accuracy.