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HiSoftware: The New Standard in Web Content Compliance and Security Solutions

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The Content-Aware Difference

HiSoftware provides content-aware compliance and security solutions for the monitoring and enforcement of risk management and privacy guidelines across digital environments. Our solutions provide a data governance platform for content management and collaboration processes that support corporate and brand integrity, site quality, accessibility and secure sensitive information for public websites and portals, as well as internal intranets and SharePoint sites.

For more than a decade, HiSoftware has helped some of the largest US federal agencies, as well as Global 2000 companies and educational institutions realize their goals for more compliant and accessible online environments. Our content-aware rules engine allows organizations to consistently address regulatory mandates and other content governance policies based on hundreds of pre-defined checkpoints, as well as custom rules that can be easily defined as policies evolve. Detailed reporting further supports these automated scans to identify risks and alert HR, privacy or other compliance officers to issues before they can escalate, effectively preventing costly fines or in the worst case, a data breach.

HiSoftware Provides a Repeatable, Practical and Measurable Solution for Compliance

Take back control of your content by translating your corporate guidelines into a repeatable and enforceable process using the HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff enterprise compliance automation solution. Enforce corporate guidelines and standards within websites, intranets, document libraries, email and social computing to stay ahead of content chaos. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff provides users with a means to monitor content for potential compliance issues across the application – keeping information safe, appropriate and within regulatory guidelines. Compliance Sheriff automates content compliance to address Web governance issues including privacy factors like personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), accessibility, data and information security, offensive content, and search engine optimization. 

Making SharePoint Safe for Sensitive Data

Building on the explosive growth of Microsoft SharePoint, HiSoftware also delivers comprehensive content-aware compliance and security solutions optimized for SharePoint 2010. Unlike competitive solutions for classification, or enterprise data loss prevention (DLP) solutions that are significantly more expensive to deploy and maintain, HiSoftware’s has created a highly configurable, compliance- and business-centric approach to managing sensitive data in SharePoint, tightly integrated to the way your organization already uses SharePoint and its complementary Microsoft applications today. And because of our content-aware approach to compliance and security in SharePoint, we are the only vendor enabling both policy and user-based classification with encryption at the file level. The result is that we cannot only protect organizations from a damaging data breach, but also help to simplify SharePoint governance.

Compliance and Security That Works the Way You Do

By default, SharePoint and other file-based document repositories typically mirror the traditional “IT” approach to permissions and access management. In the example of SharePoint, access is enabled by applying permissions to specific libraries or lists based on Active Directory groups defined by the Administrator. These Active Directory groups are often tied to organizational structure, yet may not reflect the cross-functional reality of how business actually gets done and may be at odds with goals for greater collaboration across departments, teams or global geographies.

Both HiSoftware Security Sheriff SP and HiSoftware Policy Sheriff SP look at an entire library or list of content to identify individual documents and files which should be secured based on specific policies. This approach is possible because HiSoftware’s solutions for SharePoint are content-aware, and are able to read the actual data contained in a specific document or item. Because permissions are applied at the individual file level, as compared with solutions that secure or encrypt documents at the library level, sensitive content can be stored, shared and collaborated on from any site, library or list in the SharePoint farm, with access to that content restricted only to those who have permissions to the file as defined by its classification.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Maintain Compliance with Regulatory Mandates – Leverage pre-defined checkpoints for HIPAA/HITECH, MA 201 CMR, FISMA, COPPA, Section 508/WCAG 2.0, OMB 10-22 and many other regulatory requirements

  • Leverage the Full Business Value of SharePoint – Security and permissions functionality expands the community that can now safely use and have access to your SharePoint environment: internal employees, partners, vendors, customers and prospects

  • Secure Sensitive Information – Implement content-aware controls that ensure the right users access the right information, every time, regardless of location

  • Apply Unique Classification Parameters Using SharePoint Metadata – whether system-applied based on policies, or user-applied, classification can control access to content and aid in e-discovery, search and retrieval, and any audits which may be required in the event of a breach

  • Simplify SharePoint Governance and Reduce Administration Costs – Automate SharePoint compliance and security to reduce site proliferation, and allow administrators to focus on higher value projects for training, business process management and user adoption

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