# Data discovery and classification

Data security and privacy regulations are constantly evolving. Developing a strong compliance program can be costly and challenging. Imperva’s Data Security Fabric (DSF) can assist with regulatory needs and make audit management a breeze.

### 152% ROI over 3 years

Forrester’s Total Economic Impact report shows that Imperva greatly lowers costs and has great ROI

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### Mitigating privilege abuse

Insider vs. outsider data breaches are exceeded by 10:1, and privileged insiders can do more damage

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### Rising SQL injection attacks

Imperva’s Threat Research found that 50% of database breaches came from attacks like SQL injection

[Read the report](https://www.imperva.com/resources/resource-library/white-papers/lessons-learned-from-analyzing-100-data-breaches/)

## Compliance costs, liabilities, and risk

Compliance and privacy challenges can be costly if you don’t know where your global data is.

- ### Bad user behaviors violate Data Security policy

Managing privileged user data access is difficult to enforce across large enterprises, but is a major factor in compliance readiness.

- ### Technology advances increase global data sprawl

Organizations must know where all of their sensitive data is, who can access it, and what they do with it and when - or risk audit failure and data breaches.

- ### Gathering forensic evidence takes many resources

Manually generating the reports auditors require can be time consuming for staff - even with access to all of the relevant records.

- ### Ignoring compliance requirements can cost you

A negative audit finding, or [data breach](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/data-breach/), can lead to large potential fines, and the costs from increased regulatory scrutiny that can last for years.

## Mitigate risks, reduce processes and costs

Businesses should reduce audit response time, automate data inventories, and increase record retention.

- ### Data discovery, classification, and risk assessment

Business [data needs to be automatically discovered](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/data-discovery/), [classified](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/data-classification/), control access to data, and avoid non-compliance issues while mitigating their exposure to risk.

- ### Audit record retention and archiving are crucial

Organizations should automatically store audit records and log archives across all data repositories to keep information readily available and accessible for audits.

- ### Reporting and compliance proof

Out-of-box reports for regulations such as: [SOX](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/sarbanes-oxley-act-sox/), [PCI](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/pci-dss-certification/), NYDFS, [HIPAA](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/hipaa-privacy-rule/), [GDPR](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/), and CPRA enables organizations to respond to auditors and prove compliance rapidly.

- ### Satisfy separation of duty requirements

Responsibility for audits should be segmented from overall data management, so organizations can [monitor privileged users](https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/privileged-user-monitoring/) independently of any audit responsibilities.

## Reduce risk and the cost of compliance

### Automate to speed through audits

Automating processes help complete audits FAST. Streamlined retention and live data access make it easy to answer audit questions.

### Reduce costs, increase efficiency

Improve compliance staff productivity and effectiveness. Enable teams to accomplish more, in less time, with better results.

### Avoid fines and brand damage

Mitigate non-compliance risks and avoid data incidents by identifying bad user behavior before it leads to a data security incident.

## How Imperva can help you with data compliance

### Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF)

Imperva Data Security Fabric (DSF) automates, simplifies, and lowers the cost of regulated data compliance and security for business data assets.

[Learn more](https://www.imperva.com/products/data-security-fabric/)

### Data Discovery & Classification

Continuously discover and classify valuable data whether structured or unstructured and located on-premises, hybrid, cloud, or multi-cloud environments.

[Learn more](https://www.imperva.com/products/data-security/data-discovery-classification/)