Introducing Policy Maker – Automate Data Governance and Loss Prevention

Teleskope has always had one mission – to give teams the tooling they need to protect their data by default, no matter what it contains or where it lives. With the release of Teleskope’s expanded Policy Maker, we’re one step closer to realizing this vision. 

With our new and improved Policy Maker, you can create, monitor and enforce data governance and loss prevention from one central place, letting you: 

• Streamline policy enforcement with automated redaction, data deletion, and access control – across both third-party apps and internal data stores
• Apply blanket policies across your environment, or choose from a wide range of policy triggers and filters to address highly targeted use cases
• View, monitor, and approve enforcement actions in real-time

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Protecting PII in Google Workspace

Say you’ve integrated Teleskope with your company’s Google Workspace account. Upon integrating, Teleskope will instantly begin to crawl, scan and classify all the data stored in personal or shared drives, surfacing our classifications in the Data Catalog. As the catalog populates, a concerning trend emerges – there are thousands of files containing customer PII that are shared with users outside of your organization. Enter Policy Maker. 

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Creating a Policy

Creating a new policy in Teleskope has never been easier. Our intuitive policy builder walks through the process from creating a trigger to adding conditions and selecting the desired actions. Combine as few or as many conditions as you need to apply policies across your enterprise, or target data in a certain location to address specific concerns.

Addressing your Google Workspace issue just takes a few clicks:

• First, create a policy trigger for any PII that’s detected in Google Drive. 
• Next, add conditions to only trigger the policy on files that are shared with external users.
• Consider any additional filters, like limiting the policy to certain types of PII, certain Drives, or to only include files that have not been edited in the last six months.
• Lastly, choose actions you’d like Teleskope to take when a violation is detected. You can trigger alerts in Slack, automatically create Jira tickets, revoke permissions instantly, redact the sensitive data elements, or temporarily quarantine the file while it is under investigation. 

Your new policy will immediately begin finding and addressing any past violations, and will continually detect new violations in real time. 

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Monitor Violations

Easily monitor policy violations with our new Violations page. Review emergent security risks across all active policies, or for a specific policy. Teleskope automatically assigns a severity based on what data elements we detected, and shows what action, if any, has been taken to resolve that violation.

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Investigate Violations

Worried about fully automating policy enforcement? Teleskope’s Violation Manager allows for human review of each violation, ensuring highly sensitive data isn’t touched without thorough investigation. 

To address sharing of PII in a Google Drive file, the Violation Manager gives you visibility into exactly what type of PII has been classified, which external users have access to it, and whether they’re using that access. With this added context, you can effectively triage violations and determine what action, if any, is required. Need even more context? Request temporary access to the file in question right from within Teleskope. 

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Manage Policies

Lastly, you can view and manage all your policies and your enforcement workflow from a single Policies page. View the number of violations by status, and see how many violations Teleskope has detected, how many actionable violations remain, and how many violations were resolved and ignored.

Policy Maker is now available to all Teleskope customers. Schedule a demo today to learn how Teleskope can streamline policy enforcement across your data landscape.