In today’s data-driven world, organizations face mounting challenges in managing compliance and governance. The sheer volume of unstructured data, evolving regulations, and the need for real-time visibility into communication channels make compliance a daunting task. Traditional approaches often fail to meet these challenges head-on, leaving businesses exposed to fines, litigation, and reputational damage. Mimecast’s Data Compliance and Governance solution offers a modern, AI-powered approach that simplifies compliance, accelerates investigations, and ensures resilience.
What’s Wrong with Traditional Approaches?
Traditional compliance and governance tools were designed for simpler times, but today’s business landscape has outpaced their capabilities. These outdated solutions struggle with key challenges, including:
- Siloed Systems: Data is scattered across email, collaboration tools like Teams and Slack, and other platforms. Traditional tools often lack the integrations needed to unify and analyze this data, creating blind spots that hinder compliance efforts.
- Resource-Intensive Processes: Manual processes dominate traditional compliance and legal workflows, consuming significant time and resources. For example, an average eDiscovery request takes over 100 hours to research, slowing down legal and compliance teams.
- Inadequate Visibility: Private messaging channels, direct messages, and informal communications are frequently overlooked, making it difficult to track and control potentially non-compliant or sensitive data.
- Complexity of Regulations: With ever-evolving laws like GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA, organizations struggle to interpret and adhere to compliance requirements, leading to confusion, missteps, and increased risk of fines.
- Reactive, Not Proactive: Traditional tools often only come into play after an issue arises. They lack the ability to proactively detect and address risks, leaving organizations vulnerable to non-compliance, data breaches, and legal challenges.
These inefficiencies and limitations leave businesses exposed. A staggering 68% of security practitioners report they are not fully confident their company complies with new data protection laws1, and 72% of cybersecurity leaders worry they could lose their jobs due to unaddressed compliance gaps2.
Evolving to a Modern Approach
To address today’s compliance and governance challenges, organizations need to adopt a modern approach that is proactive, efficient, and scalable. This approach focuses on leveraging AI and advanced integrations to simplify compliance, speed up investigations, and ensure data resilience.
- Comprehensive Visibility Across Platforms: A modern approach ensures visibility into all communication channels, including private messages, direct messages, and collaboration tools. It unifies and normalizes data from multiple sources, allowing organizations to monitor and analyze it effectively.
- AI-Powered Automation: By leveraging AI and natural language processing (NLP), modern solutions can proactively detect and flag policy violations, unethical behavior, and non-compliance in real time. This reduces the reliance on manual processes and enables quicker, more accurate responses.
- Proactive Compliance Monitoring: Instead of waiting for incidents to occur, a modern approach proactively identifies risks, such as unauthorized sharing of sensitive data or inappropriate messaging and takes corrective actions automatically.
- Streamlined Investigations: Modern tools provide federated search capabilities, intuitive dashboards, and AI-powered analytics that cut investigation time significantly. Legal teams can quickly locate, preserve, and analyze data for eDiscovery and legal hold requests, ensuring seamless support for litigation.
- Ease of Use and Integration: Modern compliance solutions are designed for fast deployment and minimal resource requirements. They integrate seamlessly with existing technologies, ensuring a smooth workflow that delivers ROI quickly.
This proactive, AI-driven approach not only simplifies compliance but also protects organizations from regulatory fines, reputational damage, and legal risks. It ensures that compliance becomes a seamless part of business operations, rather than a constant challenge.
How Mimecast Solves This Problem
Mimecast’s Data Compliance & Governance solution is purpose-built to address the challenges of modern compliance and governance. By combining advanced AI capabilities with seamless integrations, Mimecast helps organizations achieve compliance, accelerate investigations, and ensure resilience with less hassle.
- Unmatched Visibility and Real-Time Monitoring: Mimecast provides visibility into hard-to-see data, including private messages and direct channels on collaboration platforms like Teams and Slack. AI-powered policies surface real-time violations, such as unauthorized sharing of regulated data like PHI and PII, allowing organizations to address issues before they escalate.
- AI-Assisted Investigations: Mimecast simplifies the investigation process with AI and NLP capabilities that analyze flagged content in context, including surrounding messages, files, and participants. This accelerates response times and improves the accuracy of findings for legal, HR, and security teams.
- Streamlined eDiscovery and Legal Hold: Mimecast ensures data is collected and preserved in a legally defensible way, with tamper-proof, immutable storage that meets strict regulatory requirements. Pre-configured policy templates and AI-powered filtering make it easy to locate and produce relevant data quickly, minimizing resource strain.
- Simplified Compliance with Seamless Integrations: Mimecast integrates with existing tools and workflows, providing a single platform to manage compliance across email, collaboration tools, and more. This eliminates silos and ensures that compliance efforts are efficient and effective.
- Proactive Risk Mitigation: Mimecast’s AI-driven automation allows organizations to take swift action on policy violations, such as bi-directional deletion, content tombstoning, or notifying content authors. This proactive approach reduces the risk of regulatory fines and reputational damage.
- Proven Results: Mimecast customers have seen tangible benefits, including reduced investigation times, streamlined compliance processes, and faster responses to legal and regulatory inquiries. For example, Mimecast’s pre-configured templates and AI capabilities help organizations achieve quicker time-to-value compared to traditional solutions.
Simplify Compliance, Protect Your Business
As compliance and governance challenges grow more complex, traditional approaches are no longer enough. Mimecast’s Data Compliance & Governance solution offers a smarter, more efficient way to manage compliance, accelerate investigations, and protect your organization from regulatory and legal risks. By leveraging AI, real-time monitoring, and seamless integrations, Mimecast empowers organizations to meet compliance requirements with confidence, while reducing workloads and resource strain. Take control of compliance and governance with Mimecast—and simplify the path to protecting your most valuable data and ensuring business continuity.
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