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Actifile

Score9 out of 10

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What is Actifile?

Actifile is a data security platform designed to help organizations secure their sensitive data. According to the vendor, it offers features such as data risk discovery, risk quantification, monitoring and auditing, remediation by encryption, ransomware protection, digital forensics, insider threats mitigation, data leakage prevention (DLP), and data privacy and compliance.

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Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 6.9

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Formatting capabilities

    Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

    Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Predictive Analytics

    Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

    Category average: 6.3

  • Delivery to Remote Servers

    Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

    Category average: 7.9

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is very useful if your organization handles sensitive data as it is very good in identifying the sensitive data and then encrypts them in the background.
So it helps a lot and you don't have to worry about the compliance and regulatory bodies like HIPAA , GDPR etc. so overall it is best fit if you are concerned about data and its protection.

Pros

  • It helps identify data as per the rule set and take action like encrypt them.
  • It gives you ease as it keeps your data policy aligned with the industry standards regulatory compliance.
  • Monitoring via dashboard helps us keep a tab on important things

Cons

  • Tyere are some feature which can be added like allowing to share the file externally
  • When data is stored locally and leaves the network then it is highly dependent on its preconfigured policies.
  • And some improvement can be made in allowing the rbac policies and allowing more control to the admins.

Return on Investment

  • It has been a great addition to the application and software our org usage and the ROI has been great. As it eliminates the multiple app or software to just 1 and it reduces the cost by almost 35 %
  • Operational cost savings as traditional systems or application require lot of manpower in ensuring the same which Actifile does without any additional cost and resources.
  • Do overall it is best fit for the mid sized to large organisations.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Appgate SDP, Mozilla Firefox