Solution Brief Smart Content Governance Safeguard Corporate Information, Privacy, & IT Environments Protect your content by increasing visibility over large amounts of unstructured data and get actionable insights to minimize risk. www.egnyte.com Phone: 877-734-6983 2018 by Egnyte Inc. All rights reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STATE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA 3 CONTENT INTELLIGENCE SM 4 Collect Information Analyze Data Classify Content Visualize Results SMART CONTENT GOVERNANCE 5 Egnyte Protect Benefits How Egnyte Protect Works For Cloud Content Repositories For On-premises Content Repositories CONTENT PROTECTION SERVICES 7 Access Control Content Classification BUSINESS IMPACT 7 SaaS Hybrid Solution Open Platform Collaboration Expertise ABOUT EGNYTE Egnyte transforms business through smarter content allowing organizations to connect, protect, and unlock value from all their content. Our Content Intelligence platform delivers smart content collaboration and governance in the cloud or on-premises to thousands of businesses around the world even the most regulated industries. Founded in 2007, Egnyte is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Investors include venture capital firms, such as Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as technology partners, such as CenturyLink and Seagate Technology. Please visit www.egnyte.com or call +1 650-968-4018 for more information. Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 2
THE STATE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA Businesses are generating a broad variety of data everyday, and store this data in different repositories, in the cloud and on-premises. This includes structured data (machine-generated), and unstructured data generated by humans such as spreadsheets, presentations, emails, websites, calendars, voicemails, etc. Unstructured data is sprawling. In 2015, the amount of human-generated data produced surpassed machine-generated data and will continue to grow at over 40% annually. With such rapid growth, and multiple storage and collaboration options, it s difficult for businesses to keep track of all their data and intellectual property, putting businesses at risk for breaches from different sources. GROWTH OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA By 2019, 75% of organizations will treat archived data as an active and nearline data source, and not simply as a separate repository to be viewed or searched periodically, up from less than 10% today. IDC 2014 79 % of storage CAPACITY shipped in 2015 53 % of storage REVENUE in 2015 45% of organizations surveyed do not have management tools Source: IDC 2014 in place to better understand unstructured data. Figure 1: Why you should care about unstructured data Gartner 2014 Businesses are seeking solutions to catalogue and manage unstructured data. When you look at your company s IP/content/information, do you know who owns each file? Who has access to each file? Who can grant permission to access each file? Do you know the value of your unstructured data? Which content is mission critical, versus redundant, versus unknown? If not, you should. Unfortunately, there are very few content governance solutions that can classify, orchestrate, and protect unstructured data in the cloud and on-premises repositories. Egnyte addresses this gap. Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 3
CONTENT INTELLIGENCE SM Gain full insight over all of your content at all times Egnyte Content Intelligence is the foundation for smart content collaboration and governance, which can orchestrate any content activity in your organization. With Egnyte Content Intelligence, you gain insights on how your intellectual property is created, shared and consumed internally and externally so you can make informed business decisions. Egnyte Content Intelligence is the underlying technology that powers Egnyte Connect and Egnyte Protect. Egnyte Connect a Secure File Sharing solution that empowers employees and partners to collaborate globally on content in the cloud and on-premises Egnyte Protect a Smart Content Governance solution that enables IT to analyze and classify content, recommend actions to mitigate problems, and protect your information while complying with regulations With Egnyte Protect, BuzzFeed was able to meet requirements for data governance, without disrupting content creation and workflow, which was imperative to a digital media powerhouse where our content creators are fueling our immense growth. At the end of the day, Egnyte lets us be smarter about our content, which makes us smarter about our business. COLLECT ANALYZE CLASSIFY VISUALIZE Figure 2: The Heart of Egnyte Content Intelligence Jason Reich Director of Global Security BuzzFeed Collect Information Collect data points about your content and associated activities (files, users, groups, and permissions) stored on any cloud and on-premises content repository. Analyze Data Identify content subject to regulatory and policy requirements, and analyze historic user behavior patterns to detect mission critical content. Classify Content Organize data based on your unique business requirements, and the most common industry compliance standards (HIPAA, PII, PCI, etc), key workflows or topics and more. Visualize Results Display a complete dashboard of content activity and usage patterns across content repositories in a single place. Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 4
SMART CONTENT GOVERNANCE CSOs, CIOs and, CxOs can bring structure and visibility to their content and ensure the right policies and controls are in place Egnyte Protect is the Industry s first SaaS hybrid content governance solution, providing unstructured data classification and customizable rules to protect the privacy of your customers, employees, and partners, as well as your organization s intellectual property. BENEFITS Systems IT can take back control Ensure that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive content Scan and classify all of your cloud and on-premises repositories and monitor the state of the system with a single pane of glass SaaS deployment model is up and running in a few hours with no hardware or professional services Organizations Business leaders gain insight Protect your business from malicious and accidental sharing of sensitive content Figure 3: Egnyte Protect Analytics Dashboard Egnyte Protect has an open architecture and runs real-time content governance analytics across multiple repositories in the cloud and on premises. You avoid vendor lock-in, as Egnyte Protect is able to collect and analyze data from cloud and on-premises repositories including Egnyte Connect, SharePoint, and Windows File Server. Egnyte Protect Benefits: Easily deploy the first SaaS hybrid offer of its kind Bring structure to your digital workplace through visibility and protection of your intellectual property Personalize your content workflow for greater business agility Provide proof to key stakeholders that your content is secure and aligns with corporate policies Identify users engaging in potentially risky behavior in order to provide additional training People Users collaborate better Enforce your corporate and legal privacy policies without impacting user productivity Provide consistent access permissions across your different repositories, including SharePoint, Windows File Servers and Egnyte Connect Ensure data integrity for better business performance analysis Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 5
How Egnyte Protect Works Egnyte Protect - where our content governance solution runs with content classification, protection rules, on-going monitoring for real-time alerting and more Egnyte Connector - handles communication between Egnyte Protect and the content repositories. Content Repositories - Can be a cloud EFSS solution like Egnyte Connect or an on-premises repository like SharePoint or Windows File Server Egnyte Protect orchestrates data across multiple repositories in the cloud and on premises. For Cloud Content Repositories Egnyte Protect scans, analyzes, and classifies content stored in cloud content repositories. The metadata from files, hierarchy, permissions, users, and groups is extracted, and classification happens in the Egnyte Protect cloud along with the analysis to identify issues. Content events are continuously monitored, so alerts are generated in real time. The issues are visualized on a dashboard, showing e.g. the number and severity for each broken policy. For On-premises Content Repositories The Egnyte Hub is a virtual machine deployed at the customer location, and acts as a point of presence for Egnyte Protect. It extracts the metadata from the on-premises repositories and sends it to Egnyte Protect for analysis. Only the metadata is sent to the cloud. The content stays on premise. One Egnyte Hub is required per site and it can easily scale as the number of repositories increases. Solutions such as the Egnyte Protect Smart Content Governance Solution offer IT departments the SaaS delivery of a solution that comes with built in analytical insight, scalability, security and quick time to value to control content in the cloud and on-premises. Sean Pike Program Director, ediscovery and Information Governance, IDC Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 6
CONTENT PROTECTION SERVICES Access Control Identify anomalies with your access and permissions policies so that you can ensure only the right people have access to the right files. Use Case: The finance organization in your company is using SharePoint for file management, while the marketing department is using a cloud-based EFSS solution to access and share content. Egnyte Protect scans the files in the cloud and on-premises repositories to determine if the access permissions are aligned and if they meet compliance. All of this happens with no impact on end users. Content Classification Classify your content to find all the sensitive content (e.g. personal, financial and medical data) across all your repositories so that you can take steps to keep it secure. Use Case: The R&D team regularly collaborates on high-value content including product roadmaps, customer data, patents, engineering diagrams, etc. with other parts of the company, and it s often kept in different repositories depending on the project. The CISO uses Egnyte Protect to make sure the sensitive content is secure and only resides in designated locations. She starts by blacklisting public folders and whitelisting the most secured ones (e.g. Engineering folder). Then she applies the pre-defined classification templates (e.g. PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, GDPR, etc) to ensure that all of her content repositories comply with industry-specific regulatory requirements. This gives her piece of mind without added complications. BUSINESS IMPACT Egnyte Protect controls all the human-generated content stored on your repositories (in cloud and on premises) and ensures the right policies are in place to effectively protect and build a secure foundation for your organization s digital workplace. ARCHITECTURE BENEFITS SaaS model for your content in the cloud and on-premises Content protection begins immediately upon deployment Easily scale up data, users and repositories as needed Real-time notifications provide faster time to resolution Never have to worry about complicated software upgrades BUSINESS BENEFITS OpEx model means no hardware infrastructure costs No specialized security or data analyst skills needed No professional services required for deployment Meet Compliance requirements including SEC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS. Reduce your cyber-insurance premiums USE CASES Ensure sensitive content handling policies are followed Enforce consistent folder access permissions Reduce intellectual property and privacy exposure Prevent unauthorized users from accessing sensitive files Content anomaly containment in real time Smart Content Governance Solution Brief 7
READY TO GET STARTED? CONTACT EGNYTE SPECIALIST Smart Content Collaboration & Governance Egnyte transforms business through smarter content allowing organizations to connect, protect,and unlock value from all their content. Our Content Intelligence platform delivers smart content collaboration and governance in the cloud or on-premises to thousands of businesses around the world even the most regulated industries. Founded in 2007, Egnyte is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Investors include venture capital firms, such as Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as technology partners, such as CenturyLink and Seagate Technology. www.egnyte.com +1-650-968-4018 1350 W. Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA