Effective compliance is the ability to not only have a governance strategy in place, but also be able to manage risk by identifying issues and potential violations, and have a process in place for resolution and fine tuning. This step-by-step illustrated guide lays out each step; from defining your compliance strategy, to implementing HiSoftware’s suite of solutions for identifying and managing compliance and security issues in SharePoint to help protect your organization.

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Tips for Successful & Consistent Content Compliance

• Ensure the content compliance strategy aligns with the organization’s overall strategy and is updated for changes to existing and new policies and laws.
• Make sure the Governance framework is relevant and updated regularly.
• Have key stakeholders review the strategy regularly.
• lmplement a solution to continuously audit content, detect violations and enforce compliance policies to maintain data integrity and security, and employee and customer confidence.

Protect the Organization with Content-Aware Compliance & Security from HiSoftware to Automatically:

• Scan and Audit content at rest or in motion to detect non-compliant data and violations.
• Report on the compliance status of the site(s) and incidences, measure progress, and pinpoint issues for remediation with detailed reports and dashboards.
• Classify data at the file level based on pre-defined policies or users can manually classify data using pre-defined values.
• Restrict access to documents and set file permissions based on metadata.
• Encrypt sensitive content automatically so only properly credentialed users will be able to read the content – whether inside or outside of SharePoint.
• Prevent users from publishing, distributing, or emailing confidential and sensitive documents. Stop users from adding non-compliant content.
• Control content using workflows to alert users to fix issues, get manager approvals and quarantine documents.
• Track and monitor the movement of confidential and sensitive documents; including who views, prints, and emails the documents.

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