The clock is ticking! Is your company ready for May 25, 2018 when the General Data Protection Regulation that affects data privacy laws across Europe comes into force? If companies fail to comply, they incur very large fines and might lose customer trust if sensitive information is compromised. With data streaming in from multiple channels in different formats, sizes, and wavering quality, it is increasingly difficult to keep track of personal data so that you can protect it. SAS® Data Management helps companies on their journey toward governance and compliance involving tasks such as detection, quality assurance, and protection of personal data. This paper focuses on using SAS® Federation Server and SAS® Data Management Studio in the SAS® data management suite of products to surface and manage that hard-to find-personal data. SAS Federation Server provides you with a universal way to access data in Hadoop, Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and other types of data without data movement during processing. The advanced data masking and encryption capabilities of SAS Federation Server can be use when virtualizing data for users. Purpose-built data quality functions are used to perform identification analysis, parsing, and matching and extraction of personal data in real time. We also provide insight to how the exploratory data analysis capability of SAS® Data Management Studio enables you to scan through your investigation hub to identify and categorize personal data.
Cecily Hoffritz, SAS