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Data Discovery & Classification

Data Discovery and Classification is a critical service designed to help organisations understand, locate, and manage their sensitive data effectively. At Kew Data Consultants, we specialise in providing tailored solutions to ensure your data is not only secure but also compliant with regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.

What We Offer

  • Comprehensive Data Scanning: Identify structured and unstructured data across multiple platforms, including databases, file systems, and cloud storage.
  • Sensitive Data Identification: Detect and classify sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information (PCI), and health records.
  • Customisable Policies: Define classification rules tailored to your organisation’s unique requirements and compliance obligations.
  • Automation and Accuracy: Leverage cutting-edge tools and technologies to automate the discovery process, reducing manual efforts and increasing precision.
  • Detailed Reporting: Receive actionable insights through detailed reports that highlight data location, sensitivity levels, and associated risks.

Benefits

  1. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to global data protection laws and avoid hefty fines.
  2. Risk Mitigation: Identify vulnerabilities by understanding where sensitive data resides and how it is accessed.
  3. Operational Efficiency: Simplify data management processes by classifying and organising information effectively.
  4. Enhanced Security Posture: Protect critical assets by implementing access controls and encryption based on data sensitivity.
  5. Informed Decision-Making: Gain a clear overview of your data landscape to make smarter, data-driven business decisions.

Data Masking and Tokenisation

Data Masking and Tokenisation are essential services that protect sensitive information by obscuring or transforming it into a secure format, ensuring privacy while maintaining usability. At Kew Data Consultants, we specialise in implementing robust masking and tokenisation strategies tailored to your organisation’s unique requirements.

What We Offer

  • Dynamic Data Masking: Apply masking in real-time to secure sensitive data during use, ensuring privacy without disrupting workflows.
  • Static Data Masking: Safeguard data at rest by replacing sensitive information with fictitious but realistic values for testing and development environments.
  • Tokenisation Solutions: Replace sensitive data elements, such as credit card numbers or personal identifiers, with secure tokens that have no exploitable value.
  • Format-Preserving Techniques: Maintain the usability of data by preserving its structure, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
  • Customisable Rules and Policies: Define masking and tokenisation rules tailored to your compliance and business requirements.

Benefits

  1. Regulatory Compliance: Meet the stringent requirements of GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and other global data protection standards.
  2. Risk Reduction: Minimise exposure of sensitive data in non-production environments, reducing the likelihood of breaches.
  3. Improved Privacy: Protect customer and employee data while enabling analytics and business insights without compromising security.
  4. Simplified Audits: Tokenised and masked data facilitates smoother regulatory audits by reducing the exposure of sensitive information.
  5. Enhanced Security: Prevent unauthorised access to critical data through secure transformation techniques.

Use Cases

  • Data Sharing: Enable secure data sharing with external vendors or partners by masking or tokenizing sensitive information.
  • Testing and Development: Protect sensitive data in test environments by replacing it with realistic but non-sensitive substitutes.
  • Analytics and Reporting: Ensure privacy while performing advanced analytics on masked datasets, preserving insights without compromising security.

Data Encryption

Data Discovery and Classification is a critical service designed to help organisations understand, locate, and manage their sensitive data effectively. At Kew Data Consultants, we specialise in providing tailored solutions to ensure your data is not only secure but also compliant with regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.

What We Offer

  • End-to-End Encryption: Protect data throughout its lifecycle—from creation to storage and transmission—ensuring complete security.
  • File and Database Encryption: Secure sensitive information in files and databases with robust encryption algorithms.
  • Encryption Key Management: Implement secure and centralised key management systems to control access to encrypted data.
  • Transparent Encryption: Apply encryption seamlessly, with minimal impact on workflows and system performance.
  • Customisable Encryption Policies: Tailor encryption protocols to meet your organisation’s regulatory and operational requirements.

Benefits

  1. Data Protection: Safeguard sensitive information against unauthorised access, breaches, and theft.
  2. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to global standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
  3. Privacy Assurance: Protect customer and employee data, enhancing trust and minimising legal risks.
  4. Secure Communication: Encrypt data in transit to prevent interception during network transfers.
  5. Business Continuity: Ensure encrypted data remains secure even in the event of a physical or cyber attack.

Use Cases

  • Securing Remote Work: Encrypt sensitive communications and data transfers between employees working remotely.
  • Cloud Security: Protect data stored in cloud environments by applying encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Industry Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations requiring encrypted storage and transfer of sensitive information.
  • Ransomware Defence: Mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks by encrypting critical data to prevent unauthorised access.

Privacy Automation

Privacy Automation streamlines the complex processes required to comply with global data protection regulations, enabling organisations to handle privacy tasks with minimal manual intervention. At Kew Data Consultants, we implement customised automation solutions to help you efficiently manage privacy workflows and maintain compliance with laws such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.

What We Offer

  • Automated Privacy Workflows: Simplify compliance tasks, including consent management, data subject access requests (DSARs), and data deletion requests.
  • Data Mapping and Inventory: Automatically discover, map, and track personal data across your organisation.
  • Policy Management: Ensure automated enforcement of privacy policies across systems and processes.
  • Regulatory Monitoring: Continuously monitor changes in data protection laws and adapt workflows to stay compliant.
  • Integrated Solutions: Seamlessly integrate with existing systems for efficient privacy management.

Benefits

  1. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure timely and accurate responses to regulatory requirements.
  2. Cost Savings: Reduce manual efforts and associated costs with automated workflows.
  3. Improved Accuracy: Minimise errors by automating repetitive and complex privacy tasks.
  4. Enhanced Customer Trust: Demonstrate your commitment to safeguarding customer privacy.
  5. Scalability: Manage privacy for large datasets and growing operations with ease.

Use Cases

  • Securing Remote Work: Encrypt sensitive communications and data transfers between employees working remotely.
  • Cloud Security: Protect data stored in cloud environments by applying encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Industry Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations requiring encrypted storage and transfer of sensitive information.
  • Ransomware Defence: Mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks by encrypting critical data to prevent unauthorised access.

Privacy in AI

Privacy in Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses on safeguarding sensitive information used in AI systems, ensuring compliance while enabling innovation. At Kew Data Consultants, we implement privacy-preserving techniques to protect data throughout the AI lifecycle, from training to deployment.

What We Offer

  • Anonymisation and Synthetic Data: Replace real data with anonymised or synthetic datasets for training AI models.
  • Privacy-Preserving Algorithms: Employ algorithms like differential privacy to ensure sensitive information remains secure.
  • Secure Model Training: Protect data during model development with encrypted environments.
  • Ethical AI Compliance: Align AI systems with ethical and legal standards for privacy protection.
  • Data Minimisation: Ensure AI systems only process the minimum amount of data necessary.

Benefits

  1. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure AI systems comply with GDPR, CCPA, and other data protection laws.
  2. Risk Reduction: Mitigate the risk of exposing sensitive information during AI processing.
  3. Enhanced Trust: Build confidence in your AI systems by prioritising privacy.
  4. Secure Innovation: Enable safe and effective AI model development without compromising data privacy.

Use Cases

  • Securing Remote Work: Encrypt sensitive communications and data transfers between employees working remotely.
  • Cloud Security: Protect data stored in cloud environments by applying encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Industry Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations requiring encrypted storage and transfer of sensitive information.
  • Ransomware Defence: Mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks by encrypting critical data to prevent unauthorised access.

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) enables organisations to secure data by enforcing access policies based on user attributes, actions, and environmental conditions. At Kew Data Consultants, we design and implement ABAC solutions that provide fine-grained control over data access.

What We Offer

  • Granular Access Policies: Define policies based on user roles, job functions, and environmental factors.
  • Dynamic Access Decisions: Automatically grant or deny access based on real-time conditions.
  • Policy Enforcement Frameworks: Integrate ABAC systems with existing IT infrastructure for seamless control.
  • Scalable Solutions: Manage access controls for organisations of all sizes.

Benefits

  1. Enhanced Security: Reduce unauthorised access risks with detailed access policies.
  2. Compliance Alignment: Meet regulatory requirements for data access controls.
  3. Operational Flexibility: Adapt policies to suit evolving business needs.
  4. Risk Mitigation: Prevent data breaches by tightly controlling who can access what data.

Use Cases

  • Securing Remote Work: Encrypt sensitive communications and data transfers between employees working remotely.
  • Cloud Security: Protect data stored in cloud environments by applying encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Industry Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations requiring encrypted storage and transfer of sensitive information.
  • Ransomware Defence: Mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks by encrypting critical data to prevent unauthorised access.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) provides continuous visibility into the security of your organisation’s data, helping you detect and address vulnerabilities. Kew Data Consultants delivers DSPM solutions that empower you to maintain a proactive and secure data environment.

What We Offer

  • Data Discovery and Classification: Identify and categorise sensitive data across structured and unstructured environments.
  • Risk Assessment: Evaluate vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations, excessive access, or unprotected data.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Track the security posture of your data assets in real time.
  • Automated Remediation: Resolve issues with automated workflows to minimise risks quickly.
  • Reporting and Insights: Gain actionable insights to enhance your data security strategy.

Benefits

  1. Comprehensive Visibility: Understand your data’s security posture across all environments.
  2. Proactive Security: Identify and address vulnerabilities before they lead to incidents.
  3. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure your data management aligns with legal and regulatory requirements.
  4. Cost Efficiency: Minimise the financial impact of potential breaches by addressing risks proactively.
  5. Enhanced Governance: Strengthen control over sensitive data with continuous insights and monitoring.

Use Cases

  • Securing Remote Work: Encrypt sensitive communications and data transfers between employees working remotely.
  • Cloud Security: Protect data stored in cloud environments by applying encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Industry Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations requiring encrypted storage and transfer of sensitive information.
  • Ransomware Defence: Mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks by encrypting critical data to prevent unauthorised access.

Database Auditing and Monitoring

Database Auditing and Monitoring ensures that your organisation’s critical data repositories are continuously tracked, assessed, and protected. Kew Data Consultants provides robust solutions to help organisations maintain compliance, detect vulnerabilities, and secure databases effectively.

What We Offer

  • Comprehensive Database Audits: Assess database activities, access controls, and configurations to identify risks and inefficiencies.
  • Real-Time Monitoring: Continuously track database activity to detect anomalies or unauthorised access attempts.
  • Access Logs and Reporting: Maintain detailed audit logs of database usage for compliance and incident investigations.
  • Alert Systems: Receive instant alerts for suspicious or non-compliant activities.
  • Compliance Validation: Ensure database processes align with GDPR, HIPAA, and other regulatory standards.

Benefits

  1. Enhanced Security: Continuously monitor database activity to detect unauthorised access, suspicious activity, or potential breaches in real-time.
  2. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to laws such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other data protection regulations by maintaining comprehensive audit trails.
  3. Improved Incident Response: Facilitate faster and more effective investigations of security incidents with detailed access logs and activity records.
  4. Access Control Validation: Verify that sensitive data is only accessed by authorised personnel and in compliance with organisational policies.
  5. Risk Reduction: Proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations or excessive permissions that could expose sensitive data.
  6. Simplified Audits: Provide auditors with readily available and well-organised records, reducing the time and effort needed for compliance verification.

Use Cases

  • Regulatory Compliance: Track and log all database activities to meet audit requirements for GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA.
  • Threat Detection: Detect and prevent insider threats or external breaches by monitoring unusual database activity.
  • Access Control Validation: Verify that only authorised personnel access sensitive data within the database.
  • Performance Optimisation: Identify inefficiencies in database operations and improve performance.
  • Incident Investigation: Use detailed logs to investigate data breaches or non-compliant actions quickly and effectively.