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Identify privacy exposures with NetApp Ransomware Resilience

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Within NetApp Ransomware Resilience, you can use NetApp Data Classification to identify privacy exposures and proactively protect your data. Identifying privacy exposures reveals whether a dataset includes personally identifiable information (PII). Privacy exposures can increase security risks and alter the workload importance designation.

Required Console role
To perform this task, you need the Organization admin, Folder or project admin, or Ransomware Resilience admin role. Learn about Ransomware Resilience roles for NetApp Console.

Identify privacy exposures

Before you can identify privacy exposures in Ransomware Resilience, you need to enable Data Classification to scan your data.

Data Classification is a core component of the NetApp Console and a separate product from Ransomware Resilience. Using it does not require a license. Depending on your setup, deployment can incur costs, which are not charged by Ransomware Resilience.

You can deploy Data Classification from the Protection page of Ransomware Resilience. Follow the procedure to identify the privacy exposure. When you select Identify exposure, a dialog appears; select Deploy Classification for free. After successful deployment, you can return to Ransomware Resilience to identify the exposure on the workload.

Before you begin

Scanning for PII data in Ransomware Resilience is available if you've deployed Data Classification.

Steps

  1. From the Ransomware Resilience menu, select Protection.

  2. On the Protection page, locate a file share workload in the Workload column.

    Protection page showing Privacy exposure column

  3. In the Privacy exposure column, select Identify exposure. Scanning can take several minutes.

  4. When the scan completes, review your exposure. The exposure is classified into one of three designations:

    • High: Greater than 70% of files contain PII

    • Medium: Greater than 30% and less than 70% of files contain PII

    • Low: Greater than 0% and less than 30% of files contain PII

  5. To view more details about the privacy exposure, select the workload name and assess the impact of the privacy exposure on workload importance.

    Workload details screen showing the Privacy exposure tile

Impact of privacy exposure on workload importance

Privacy exposure changes can impact the workload importance.

Privacy exposure change Previous exposure Current exposure Change in workload importance

Decreases

High, Medium, or Low

Medium, Low, or None

Remains the same

Increases

None

Low

Remains at Standard

Low

Medium

Changes from Standard to Important

Low or Medium

High

Changes from Standard or Important to Critical

More information

For information about remediating privacy exposure, see the Data Classification documentation: