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| keywords | ransomware protection, workload importance, privacy, cds, sensitive, pii |
| summary | Ransomware Resilience can identify privacy exposures in your data that help you improve the security of your workloads. |
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.
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.
Scanning for PII data in Ransomware Resilience is available if you’ve deployed Data Classification.
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From the Ransomware Resilience menu, select Protection.
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On the Protection page, locate a file share workload in the Workload column.
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In the Privacy exposure column, select Identify exposure. Scanning can take several minutes.
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When the scan completes, review your exposure. The exposure is classified into one of three designations:
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High: Greater than 70% of files contain PII
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Medium: Greater than 30% and less than 70% of files contain PII
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Low: Greater than 0% and less than 30% of files contain PII
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To view more details about the privacy exposure, select the workload name and assess the impact of the privacy exposure on workload importance.
Privacy exposure changes can impact the workload importance.
| Privacy exposure change | Previous exposure | Current exposure | Change in workload importance |
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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 |
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Low or Medium |
High |
Changes from Standard or Important to Critical |
For information about remediating privacy exposure, see the Data Classification documentation: