Data Governance and Privacy

Improve your competitiveness in today’s digital economy with strategies, policies and processes to identify, manage and protect critical data.

Information is the lifeblood of a business, driving everything from advanced data analytics to competitive differentiation and better customer relationships. However, the volume of enterprise data being generated, processed and stored is growing exponentially, increasing costs and creating risks that need to be managed.

What’s more, the increasingly mobile workforce and the proliferation of employee devices, coupled with the rapid migration of applications and workloads to public clouds, have increased the data footprint and attack surface area. Data breaches continue to make headlines, with businesses suffering from reputational damage, regulatory fines and loss in customer confidence.

The need for effective data governance and privacy programs is paramount to ensure the security and privacy of critical data assets, and for businesses to maximize the value of their data.

A full menu of services

DXC Data Governance and Privacy services are designed to protect your critical data from unauthorized access, modification and theft. We provide experienced and certified consultants to help you understand gaps in your data security and privacy programs, and we can help you develop an enterprise-wide data protection and privacy strategy and architecture aligned to your business objectives and policies.

We use our data security governance and privacy framework to design and implement organizational structures, policies, processes and technologies to mitigate your data risks across a hybrid IT environment and help you meet industry standards and regulation requirements.

DXC Technology professionals deliver on projects of all sizes across a variety of industries, providing everything from advisory workshops and assessments, to policy design and enterprise-wide solutions with full turnkey architecture design and technology implementation. DXC services include:

• Data protection maturity assessments
• Data protection strategy and architecture
• Data security governance
• Data discovery and classification
• Privacy services

The goal is to help enterprise and government customers manage and protect critical data. We work with you to ensure the secure movement of information within and around your organization.

DXC helps improve visibility of your data assets and increase efficiency. Designing and implementing standardized architectures allows you to plan, justify and prioritize the deployment of new business processes and technologies consistently and cost effectively while optimizing data protection.

By implementing a harmonized set of technical controls and processes that address business, regulatory and internal policy requirements, DXC enables you to streamline your data security and privacy governance activities. DXC methodologies are established and repeatable, helping you quickly develop solutions tailored for your industry and rapidly reduce data risk. DXC is highly experienced and skilled in helping customers meet national and international compliance requirements, as well as industry- specific regulations for data protection and privacy.

Our discovery and classification services leverage partner tools to locate sensitive information within data repositories and enable data users to classify and label emails and documents that can be leveraged by downstream data management and data security controls.

DXC’s assessment services measure your current data security and privacy capabilities and identify gaps by using DXC’s Cyber Reference Architecture, which has been developed using input from hundreds of customer engagements and is aligned to International Organization for Standardization (ISO), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CSA CCM) security control frameworks, as well as privacy regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

DXC incorporates privacy-by-design and zero-trust security principles to define data protection and privacy architectures, processes and technical controls. Our data security and privacy governance framework enables you to implement effective policies, processes and controls to mitigate risks and address compliance requirements.

How DXC can help

DXC helps you to understand, protect and manage your data better to achieve your business goals and increase customer confidence and loyalty. You gain visibility into where your important data assets reside and how that data is captured, processed, transferred to third parties, stored and deleted.

Our classification services help you implement a classification taxonomy and labeling solution that raises security awareness with your employees and business partners and enables targeted and cost-effective deployment of data management and protection solutions.

With DXC at your side, you can keep pace with your constantly evolving data security and privacy risks and implement a data protection and privacy strategy, architecture, policies and controls that are aligned to business requirements and based on best-practices disciplines and repeatable methodologies.

In particular:

• DXC offers an end-to-end, product- agnostic approach covering data protection and privacy strategy, governance and compliance, including architecture, design, implementation and management of data protection and privacy solutions.
• DXC’s Cyber Reference Architecture (CRA) is vendor-agnostic, granular and versatile. It is a highly structured framework of nearly 350 discrete security capabilities crafted into solution blueprints to accelerate the development of roadmaps for data protection and privacy.
• DXC specialists and certified consultants address key industry business risks with in-depth knowledge of your specific data protection and privacy needs and legal, regulatory and compliance issues. DXC delivers integrated, innovative and trusted security solutions that minimize data risk and maximize your investment in information security.
• DXC has global reach, availability and scale — our managed services provide 24x7x365 support to protect your business. DXC has more than 3,500 security and compliance specialists and Security Operations Centers on five continents.
• DXC consultants are vendor-certified and have a breadth and depth of expertise and knowledge of security technologies, with partners such as Symantec, Micro Focus, Gemalto and Microsoft.
• DXC supplies industry-certified professionals with extensive security and compliance expertise in areas such as GDPR, HIPAA, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), ISO 27001, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), SANS Institute, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) and partner-specific accreditation, including International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) membership and certifications.

Contact us to learn more about DXC Data Governance and Privacy.