An Overview of dataBelt – the Swiss Army Knife of Data Management

Data is the lifeblood of every organisation, the valuable asset that each employee generates an endless amount of daily. Effectively collecting and analysing data can help you understand your customers better and make more informed decisions.

Though abundant, not all data is treated the same. The challenge lies in not having a suitable tool to organise, classify, and index all of this data so you can search and analyse them for later use. Then, there is also the challenge of safeguarding your data from frauds or becoming non-compliant.

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Your data issues can be elevated with the right data management solution, and dataBelt could be the solution that you have been looking for.

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What is dataBelt?

A typical organisation produces tons of files and emails daily; some of them can be highly sensitive. Imagine it leaked, and fell into the wrong hands.

It is virtually impossible to come up with plans and strategies to mitigate risks while staying in compliance with the latest data regulations without a suitable system. This is where dataBelt comes in.

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DataBelt is an all-in-one solution leveraging modern technologies, namely machine learning and robotic processing, to support companies to overcome challenges associated with data governance.

Its open API architecture and data crawler support the indexing, classifying and storing both structured and unstructured data in a secure data lake. You can always rest assured your valuable assets are well protected, organised, maintained, and readily available upon request.

DataBelt enables you to understand every piece of data you currently possess, including but not limited to documents, images, videos, and even sound files. What’s more, the solution also helps you to grasp the relationship between each data, the jurisdiction it belongs to, what can it be used for, its level of privacy/ sensitivity and many more.

On top of that, dataBelt is deployable both on-premise and in the cloud.

Classify, index, search

DataBelt does the heavy work of classifying and indexing structured and unstructured data for you. The classification and indexing enable you to apprehend specifically what you currently hold, how it is stored, and where it is located. Thus, you can easily search for any piece of information (personal, references, keywords, or multiple language characters) with minimal time and effort.

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And what can you search for? To name a few: Search Exchange, Google Drive, DropBox, any servers, file shares, emails, spreadsheets, PDFs, microfiche, images, videos, sound files. Its Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability also allows you to match image types or for facial recognition.

Enforce security

DataBelt trawls every nook to index your data and compares different datasets to identify frauds, errors, non-conformities as well as duplications. The solution empowers you and your team members to be more active in protecting your valuable assets by mapping Malops, thus gaining a complete 360-degree view of your data sensitivity levels, at-risk and corrupted files, and vulnerabilities. Once the impacted data is identified, you can then alert your compliance teams, conduct impact assessments, strategise response, and report incidents accordingly.

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DataBelt also helps you to ward off potential threats by integrating with government-approved identity verification tools. With the integration, you can conduct Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Client (KYC) within dataBelt to prevent illegal activities, thus protecting yourself, your clients and other stakeholders.

Maintain compliance

Obtaining a full understanding of all data and how it is handled is crucial in staying compliant with the latest regulations. However, following local laws is not enough. You also need to comply with the rules and regulations in the countries and regions that you sell your products/ services to.

DataBelt adheres to GDPR and employs data protection by design approach, which prioritises the protection of your employees and clients’ privacy. The solution helps you to identify signs of potential breaches, and allows you to receive, progress and monitor DSARs and Fol requests in addition to providing you with a complete log of data activities.

DataBelt offers a user-friendly and role-based interface. With a full data rest and transit security model, the solution not only can safeguard your data from unauthorised access, but also provides an approval model so you can monitor, transform, and update non-compliant data. When left in situ, dataBelt creates historical information reports detailing changes made to your data.

Let’s also not forget the intuitive dashboards and comprehensive management reports that give you an overview of all the operational metrics to measure data compliance or to submit statutory and regulatory returns.

Wonder how dataBelt could be the right fit for your specific company? Check out dataBelt’s successful case studies:

1. Expired security certificate at a London’s merchant bank, which hindered payments and trading processes. Click here to download.

2. An international digital marketing company embarked on a digital transformation journey, which required them to rethink their cybersecurity, data protection and data valuation measures. Click here to download.

3. Establishing a data governance framework for an international company and its group of subsidiaries. Click here to download.

4. Automating the pension payroll process, improving productivity for a UK-based company that handles pensions of over 340 UK government employers. Click here to download.

All in all, dataBelt is a data compliance and cleansing (plus more) tool available both on-premise and in the cloud. The solution features built-in AI which enables you to produce clean, accurate and consistent data for error-free processing.

Your data will only keep increasing. The day you are drowning in the sheer volume of data, and spending hours just to find one piece of relevant information, and then trying to make sense of it, will come sooner than you think.

Why not transform the way you and your teams handle data, actually be in control, and spend valuable time making impactful decisions instead? With dataBelt, data governance challenges can now be a thing of the past.

Seeing is believing! Witness dataBelt in action and how it can transform your business by requesting a demo today!