The number of data breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) is on the rise.  The majority of these data breaches are caused due to bad business processes rather than by unauthorized access to networks.

In order to protect your personal and sensitive information from exposure due to bad processes you need to know what you have and where it resides.  The first step to identify those “bad processes” is creating and maintaining a personal data inventory.  With Privacy Management Services an inventory can be completed in 30 days giving you insight into what type of records exist, which records contain PII,  what media it resides in, and how it moves across the enterprise.

Having this information enables you to perform regular threat assessments to identify where your risks and vulnerabilities lie so you can develop actionable policies and procedures to mitigate those “breakdowns”.