Veritas Introduces New Classification Engine for Intelligent Data Management Across its Portfolio

Veritas Introduces New Classification Engine
for Intelligent Data Management Across its Portfolio

Data Insight 6.0 and Enterprise Vault 12.2 are
first Veritas solutions to support classification engine

Singapore, July 25, 2017 – Veritas Technologies, a
leader in multi-cloud data management, today unveiled the Integrated Classification Engine,
a new technology that delivers powerful intelligence into data risks
on-premises and in the cloud. 

Organizations today struggle with gaining
visibility and insight into their fastest growing data—unstructured data. This
type of data — including emails, documents and image files — expose
organizations to potentially harmful security vulnerabilities and unintended
personally identifiable information (PII) leaks. This problem is expected to
intensify as enterprise data growth has accelerated to a rate of 49 percent
year-over-year, according to the 2017 Veritas Data Genomics Index.1

The Integrated Classification Engine enables
organizations to quickly scan and tag data to ensure that sensitive or risky
information is properly managed and protected. This innovative technology
provides broad visibility into PII and helps companies meet compliance
regulations that require discrete retention policies be implemented and
enforced across the organization’s entire data estate—regardless of where that
data lives.

This new technology is available now in Veritas Data Insight 6.0 and
will be available with Veritas Enterprise Vault 12.2 in
August. Future integrations are planned across the Veritas data protection,
storage and governance portfolio.

Classification technology helps organizations
achieve GDPR and global regulatory compliance

The Integrated Classification Engine has
capabilities that help organizations achieve compliance with strict data
protection requirements worldwide, like the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). Specifically, the Integrated Classification Engine can
locate where PII exists across an organization’s data landscape and drive
actions that help enterprises appropriately retain and delete this data, both
critical and challenging aspects of the GDPR. According to findings from the
first phase of the The Veritas 2017
GDPR Report,
nearly 40 percent of respondents are worried their organization cannot
accurately identify or locate data in a short time frame, a mandate of GDPR.

Click here to
read about phase two findings, released today, from the Veritas 2017 GDPR
Report.

Simple-to-use and easy-to-deploy, the
Integrated Classification Engine includes more than 100 pre-configured patterns
for recognition of credit card and social security numbers, medical records and
other PII. It also comes pre-loaded with more than 60 different policies for
GDPR, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations around the globe to
accelerate compliance readiness. Additional features include a dictionary that
identifies risky keywords that suggest improprieties, as well as
confidence-scoring and quality assurance tools to minimize false
positives. 

“Classification technology is a critical tool
for organizations that need broad visibility into PII and want to retrieve
specific information quickly in order to address GDPR,” said Mike Palmer,
executive vice president and chief product officer, Veritas. “Manual processes are often unenforceable,
laborious and inconsistent. However, by incorporating modern classification technology across our
portfolio, Veritas is leapfrogging the market with a new approach to data
management that makes sensitive data easier to find, redundant and stale data
easier to delete, and allows organizations to make more informed decisions.”

Data Insight 6.0 Blends Artificial
Intelligence with Classification to Enhance Risk Detection

Veritas Data Insight 6.0 takes
a significant step forward in delivering risk analytics by triangulating
insights from content classification, metadata analytics and user behavior to
quickly uncover potential bad actors or malicious activities. Data Insight’s
proprietary “User Risk Score” is the first-line of defense for identifying
suspicious activity and initiating remediation efforts to keep sensitive files
protected. 

Data Insight 6.0 introduces deep learning
technology that incorporates the User Risk Score and other file attributes to
hunt for an organization’s riskiest files and recommend next steps. By using
artificial intelligence to prioritize how the Integrated Classification Engine
scans files, Data Insight 6.0 can dash through petabytes of data to illuminate
the darkest of data. Data Insight 6.0 is available today from Veritas and its
worldwide channel partners.

Enterprise Vault 12.2 Leverages Classification
to Enrich Retention and Discovery with Intelligence

Veritas Enterprise Vault 12.2 enables
administrators to infuse their archive with intelligence by reclassifying all
of their existing content with consistent patterns and policies delivered via
the Integrated Classification Engine. The solution aligns the classification
tags with retention policies to ensure that all critical data is managed
appropriately, while the “junk” can be deleted within the normal course of
operations. 

Enhanced classification capabilities provide
the foundation for accelerated investigations by making it easier to search for
content using classification tags and expediting the process of responding to
discovery or information requests to address compliance regulations. Enterprise
Vault 12.2 will be available in August through Veritas and its worldwide
channel partners.

“As data growth reaches Exabyte proportions,
organizations have become overwhelmed by mostly unstructured ‘dark’ data that
is redundant, stale or of radically varying quality,” said Jason Buffington,
principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The Integrated Classification
Engine introduced by Veritas today is designed to provide a substantial leap
forward for companies needing to achieve governance, risk management and
compliance through actionable intelligence on what data exists, who owns it and
has access to it, and how it is being used.”

About Veritas

Veritas Technologies empowers businesses of
all sizes to discover the truth in information—their most important digital
asset. Using the Veritas platform, customers can accelerate their digital
transformation and solve pressing IT and business challenges including
multi-cloud data management, data protection, storage optimization, compliance
readiness and workload portability—with no cloud vendor lock-in. Eighty-six
percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Veritas today to reveal data insights
that drive competitive advantage. Learn more at www.veritas.com or follow us on Twitter
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