For today’s way of the data treatment, it is an easy target to expose as organizations across the world are looking at the increasing amounts of data to deal with every day, this could be through e-mails, files, transactions, etc. Hence organizations urgently need to understand what their sensitive data is and where they are so that they can deploy appropriate controls to protect it. Data Flow Analysis (DFA) is the first step toward identifying sensitive data and implementing appropriate security controls for data protection.

CyRAACS’s DFA framework covers all the stages of the data lifecycle right from data acquisition to retirement. It helps to capture an accurate picture of the data flow at various stages within the organization. The output from DFA can act as key inputs to a Digital Rights Management (DRM) or Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) tool implementation, should an organization wish to implement those tools.