Name: Why Digital Guardian?
Uploaded: 2014-08-05T16:11:12.000Z
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Description: Why Digital Guardian?

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The Digital Guardian Platform from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems, acquired in late 2021) is a cloud-delivered data protection platform purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Additionally, Digital Guardian User Activity Monitoring enables users to detect, investigate and mitigate suspicious user actions to ensure sensitive data doesn’t get out. And Digital Guardian for Data Discovery provides visibility and auditing of sensitive data at rest across the enterprise.

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Data Loss Protection and Prevention software aids the enterprise's DLP strategy through policy controls and detection of potential data breaches, blocking sensitive data or preventing unauthorized access to it through various methods (e.g. automatic encryption) during breaches or infiltration of the corporate network and protocol. Beyond standard protections (e.g. firewalls), advanced security may include machine learning or activity-based verification, user activity monitoring, and other methods of detecting and preventing malicious or accidental transmission of secure data.

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Fortra is a leading provider of systems and network management, business intelligence, and security and compliance solutions. Our software reduces data center costs by improving operational control and delivery of IT services. Founded in 1982, we have offices worldwide and more than 8,700 customers from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, our mission is to be an expert provider of data center software that solves real business problems. We take pride in offering the best service in the industry. Our calls are answered the old fashioned way—by a live person. We do not use interactive voice response. And our support teams provide award-winning, knowledgeable, and friendly service.

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Why Digital Guardian?

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The nature of data protection has changed dramatically in the past few years. It used to be that a predictable, IT controlled network contained your organization's sensitive data. You knew exactly where your data was going and who had access. 

But changes in the security landscape dissolved the network perimeter. And as the security landscape has changed, so have the types of threats your sensitive data faces. Outsiders are increasingly gaining access to and attacking data. It's no longer enough to protect against insider threats alone - you need security that starts at the source, with each piece of data, and travels with it.  

That's Digital Guardian - security's change agent - the only security solution that protects data against both insider and outsider threats, right at the endpoint. Our proven and patented security technology starts with the agent. Installed in the kernel of the operating system, the agent sits at the endpoint and monitors every single data interaction. The agent can automatically add a security tag to each individual piece of data that dictates customized permissions, taking into account the type, content, and author of the data. 

And when the agent observes  behaviors that pose a threat to your sensitive data, it automatically applies controls. This means your data is protected and context-aware. The agent won’t block benign actions and employees can continue to enjoy a seamless user experience. For example, if an employee needs to download a non-sensitive work document onto a USB to work on at home, he’ll be permitted to do so. If he attempted the same for a sensitive document, it would be automatically encrypted.

The tag remains no matter how the file is modified or where the data goes, giving the agent persistent visibility and control. Guarding your sensitive data against insider and outsider threats at the endpoint. 

We are security's change agent, managing 52 million terabytes of sensitive data protected daily with over 2 million Digital Guardian agents worldwide. In data-rich industries such as manufacturing, financial services, and government agencies. It’s been proven to run silently on millions of endpoints for the world’s top IP holders. In fact, Digital Guardian is the only agent-based technology that covers more than 250,000 employees using a single management server. 

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Features related to preventing loss of sensitive data and/or proactively protecting data.

Classification Scanning

Performs a thorough scan of the network and classifies data based on organizational security protocols.

Email Scanning & Filtering:

Scans, filters, and monitors emails and other transmissions for malicious content and blocks any suspicious activity.

Policy Based Protection

Establishes rules and policies regarding data handling, transmission, and storage that should be followed in order to prevent data loss.

Data Breach Reporting

Analyzes logs, tracks suspicious activity, and generates reports that detail unauthorized actions and data breaches through comprehensive documentation.

Device Monitoring

Monitors communication from external and internal devices for suspicious activity.

Data Patterning

Automatically detects patterns in data usage to identify behavioral deviations from expected or approved activities.

Incident Response

Initiates a response to the detected data breaches to isolate the breach and begin the remediation process.

Data Access Control

Establishes who can and cannot access certain data and tracks their activity while they do so.

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Information Specialist

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End users

No exception

Microsoft outlook

Microsoft excel

False positives

End up

File share

Time a user

Copy and paste

Sensitive data

Email account

Company file

Home

Data Loss Prevention Software

Digital Guardian is a personalized solution that avoids, or eliminates the chances of data losses, with an inbuilt capacity for constant screening and digital evaluation. Further, Digital Guardian is a cloud deployed or delivered tool, with elastic scalability or customization. Besides, Digital Guardian covers all devices and systems, from Linux, Windows, and others. Again, the tool has the deepest visibility, which makes the access of every sensitive data [renowned] and efficient.

Digital Guardian provides a comprehensive classification, more so for database efficiency.
Besides, Digital Guardian has flexible controls for screening and business eligibility.
Lastly, Digital Guardian monitors all the actions that individuals commit in a company.

Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.

Digital Guardian is cloud deployed or delivered, hence, efficient.
Besides, Digital Guardian has professionals to detect any cyber security or threat.
Finally, Digital Guardian creates an endpoint coverage, very progressive and rational.

The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.

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DLP is one of those categories of software that didn't even really exist a decade ago. In today's world, it has become a very important software category for many companies, especially any company that has IP or PII that they don't want to be leaked. We use Digital Guardian on all of our Virtual Desktops, as well as all of our laptops and desktops. This helps make sure that users are not able to exfiltrate sensitive data from the company, for any number of reasons.

Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.

Program Conflicts - DLP software can often cause undesirable effects in programs, and Digital Guardian is no exception here. We had substantial issues with it locking up Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel.
Excessive false positives - If you don't tune the software properly, you may end up reviewing a lot of non-critical items, and that can lead to lots of extra admin time for fairly benign occurrences.
Frequent program updates - Digital Guardian issues hotfixes and patches for their software frequently, and often times those updates will fix one problem, but cause another problem
Reverting to older versions - We frequently had to revert to older versions after testing a fix for an issue, because the new fix would break something else. This became very frustrating to end users, administrators, and management.

Lost work hours - We lost lots of work hours due to admins having to troubleshoot program issues, and also manually remove DG agents from machines so that users could get back to work.
No DLP protection because we had to mass uninstall it - We ended up pulling DG from our entire environment because of the problems it caused with Excel and Outlook. DG acknowledged this was absolutely their fault, but it took them quite a while to issue a fix, and the first several did not actually resolve the problem. We simply did not have the time or patience to beta test their software for them. As a result, our users have to run with no DLP protection, just so they can actually work.
Negative perception of IT - DG actually ended up giving the IT Department quite a black eye. Users were nervous any time we mentioned we were doing software maintenance or patching, because they were fearful that some new problem was going to be introduced and they wouldn't be able to do their jobs. It has taken time and many hours to repair that trust.

Digital Guardian

Overview

What is Digital Guardian?