ZL Technologies Announces Entrance into EU with GDPR Ready Solutions

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - October 30, 2017) - ZL Technologies, Inc., a leader in unified governance, eDiscovery, compliance, and analytics for large enterprises, today announced a suite of solutions that will allow organizations to meet requirements set forth by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

With GDPR going into effect 25 May, 2018, organisations handling EU resident information will need a process for managing personal data in accordance with the regulation's many protection requirements. Such requirements include a data subject's right to access, erasure, portability, and restriction of processing of data upon request. Many of the regulation's most difficult challenges surround the capability to identify and take action on personal data lying in key unstructured repositories, such as email, file shares, SharePoint, and ECMs.

ZL Tech's GDPR Ready Solutions provide a versatile set of capabilities depending on each customer's individual needs and concerns. From in-place management of personal data to more advanced information governance capabilities such as lifecycle management, compliance and archiving, ZL's build-upon approach can accommodate a diverse range of unique situations and environments. Leveraging multiple applications from ZL Tech's unified governance platform, ZL GDPR Ready Solutions offer a solid compliance foundation that can be divided into four vital components:

Identify: ZL Tech's GDPR Ready Solutions streamline the compliance process by offering visibility and control over all unstructured repositories from a single point of access. Within this central console, users can perform comprehensive searches across enterprise data to identify documents containing personal data, which is then highlighted through intuitive and actionable visualisation features.

Minimise: Minimise personal data, minimise risk. ZL's remediation capabilities allow users to identify and take action on low-value and high-risk content in place.

Govern: Control over personal data is key to GDPR compliance. Article 25 mandates that privacy is instilled "by design." ZL's unified architecture delivers full governance and full control, offering complete lifecycle management and defensible disposition, as well as a secured repository in which data can be stored.

Comply: GDPR mandates organisations identify and remediate personal data when requested by a data subject via a Subject Access Request. ZL GDPR Ready Solutions enable users to open and track tickets for Subject Access Requests, execute searches, and ultimately comply with several GDPR articles by delivering, deleting, restricting access, and reporting on personal data.

These capabilities are critical to an organisation's ability to comply with GDPR's multiple articles pertaining to subject access requests. Research indicates that 48% of UK adults may invoke data subject rights, and an influx of new data requests could lead to massive overhead for organisations without an efficient method of data retrieval and remediation.

"Regulations often fail to keep pace with the ethical concerns around emerging technologies," said ZL Tech CEO Kon Leong. "However, in the case of GDPR, the regulation's requirements will test the limits of many organisations' approach to data management. Unified control over each of an enterprise's data silos will be as important as ever."

ZL Tech's powerful analysis and management capabilities have received distinctions such as Gold Stevie® Awards in both the American Business Awards and International Business Awards.

Please click here to learn more about ZL Tech's GDPR Ready Solutions. You can also learn more about ZL's upcoming speaking sessions and appearances by visiting their event schedule.

About ZL Technologies, Inc.

ZL Technologies' centralized information governance platform enables organizations to manage all enterprise content and satisfy corporate needs for file analysis, eDiscovery, records management, regulatory compliance, and analytics. ZL UA's unique differentiator is its unified architecture, which consolidates all applications and billions of documents under one platform, thus eliminating today's fractured data silos which significantly raise operating costs, increase legal risk, and derail analytics initiatives. Demonstrating a proven track record with Global 500 customers, ZL Tech has emerged as a technology leader in harnessing big data for strategic advantage. For more information, please visit www.zlti.com