
SAS® for Personal Data Protection
Protect personal data. Work toward compliance.
Find out how an insurance provider beat the GDPR filing deadline using SAS for Personal Data Protection.
An end-to-end approach to identifying, governing and protecting personal data.
Not only do customers and employees depend on you to protect their personal data, but certain regulations – including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – require you to do so to avoid harsh penalties. That’s why having the right technology in place is so important. SAS helps you with every step of the process, from gaining access to data sources to auditing the results.
Access
Access your data where it resides. And when you need it.
Before you can provide the high level of data protection needed to comply with regulations, you first need the ability to locate your data and securely access it. With SAS, you can:
- Use a single interface to access and manage your data. Locate data across different systems and networks, identify personal data and start categorizing the different types of data you have – all from a unified environment.
- Provide unstructured and big data integration. Blend and analyze data from many different file types, including data in unstructured or poorly structured formats, such as social media and web log data.
- Get access to audit, monitor and risk reports. Not only can you easily access personal data, but you can also have reports on that data readily available.
- Integrated data management. Data quality, master data management, data governance and centralized security management are all available SAS Personal Data Protection technologies to help you securely access data.
- Virtual user-based data access. Set role-based permissions for data access, so your data is as secure as it is readily available.
- Ability to connect to any source – anytime, anywhere. Regardless of where or how your data is stored, you’ll be able to access it quickly and securely.
- SAS® Data Management
An industry-leading solution built on a data quality platform that helps you improve, integrate and govern your data. - SAS® Federation Server
With data virtualization tools you can achieve a secure, business-centric virtual view of your data without moving it.
Ready to take the next step toward getting the most value from your data? We offer several different technology, deployment and financing options, depending on your needs.
For pricing and ordering information, check out our purchasing options.
Or you can request a personalized price quote.

Identify
Use prepackaged, out-of-the-box logic rules to search for and single out personal data.
Before you can begin protecting personal data, you first need to understand where it is, and whether it would be categorized as personal information. SAS enables you to:
- Identify data sources containing personal data. With tools such as identification analysis, standardization and pattern matching, you can easily identify sources with sensitive information.
- Analyze data and evaluate need for de-identification. By examining data attributes, patterns and contexts, you can evaluate whether data should be de-identified as sensitive.
- Assess risk. After analyzing data, you’ll be able to assess and minimize the risk of exposing personally identifiable information.
- Prepackaged logic and rules. Your IT department can work more efficiently and avoid time-consuming coding by turning to thousands of prepackaged logic and rules for identifying sensitive data.
- Integrated data management. Data quality, data governance and centralized security management are all available SAS Personal Data Protection technologies based on your specific needs.
- Easy to use. SAS for Personal Data Protection solutions are user-friendly for both business and IT.
- SAS® Data Quality
Improve the value of your data – and maintain high-quality data – so you can fuel day-to-day business operations and analytics initiatives.
- SAS® Federation Server
With data virtualization tools you can achieve a secure, business-centric virtual view of your data without moving it.
- SAS® Visual Analytics
Data visualization technology from SAS helps you explore and understand your data from a single, powerful in-memory environment.
Ready to take the next step toward getting the most value from your data? We offer several different technology, deployment and financing options, depending on your needs.
For pricing and ordering information, check out our purchasing options.
Or you can request a personalized price quote.

Govern
Establish maintain and monitor rules and policies across your organization.
A successful personal data protection program requires everyone to be on the same page when it comes to defining personal data, deciding who can access it and determining how it’s managed. With SAS, you can:
- Define personal data terms. Before you can protect personal data, you must first determine what it is. SAS helps you define the term so you can more easily align business and IT.
- Achieve a global view. Get a more complete understanding of personal data and links systems, as well as processes and business owners in data flows.
- Maintain high-quality data. The ability to meet compliance standards requires your data to be accurate, complete and consistent. SAS embeds data quality into your solution so you can maintain a high level of data integrity.
- Experience and expertise. Not only does SAS provide top-notch technology, but we also have experts who understand it better than anyone. We’ll help you establish processes and work in a way that benefits your business.
- Business glossary. It’s easy to establish standard definitions, integrate workflow, flag issues and promote collaboration between team members when everyone is working from a standard glossary.
- Built-in reporting, monitoring and validation. Measure your success, track progress and monitor trends. You’ll know whether you’re meeting goals, or if policies are being followed – and you can make changes when necessary.
- SAS® Data Governance
Set and enforce policies and establish a consistent view of your data without micromanaging it. - SAS® Data Management
An industry-leading solution built on a data quality platform that helps you improve, integrate and govern your data.
Ready to take the next step toward getting the most value from your data? We offer several different technology, deployment and financing options, depending on your needs.
For pricing and ordering information, check out our purchasing options.
Or you can request a personalized price quote.

Protect
Satisfy your customers’ need for personal data security. Work toward compliance.
Our approach to data protection involves authentication, authorization, security, auditing and monitoring users who access personal data. Your ability to analyze, forecast, query and report on your data is as secure as ever. SAS enables you to:
- Implement safeguards. Know who is accessing personal data, and make sure only the right people can view it.
- Apply privacy-specific measures. Capabilities such as pseudonymization, anonymization and encryption help you protect privacy when it’s most important.
- Make only relevant data available for access. Control what data is available to certain users, so only necessary data is available for collection.
- Integrated data management. Data quality, data governance and centralized security management are all available SAS Personal Data Protection technologies based on your specific needs.
- Virtual user-based data access. Set role-based permissions for data access, so your data is as secure as it is readily available.
- Ability to connect to any source, anytime, anywhere. Regardless of where or how your data is stored, you’ll be able to access it quickly and securely.
- SAS® Data Management
An industry-leading solution built on a data quality platform that helps you improve, integrate and govern your data.
- SAS® Federation Server
With data virtualization tools you can achieve a secure, business-centric virtual view of your data without moving it.
Ready to take the next step toward getting the most value from your data? We offer several different technology, deployment and financing options, depending on your needs.
For pricing and ordering information, check out our purchasing options.
Or you can request a personalized price quote.

Audit
Know whether you’re in compliance. Create reports to prove it.
When you fully understand the state of your data, it’s easier to meet regulations such as the GDPR – and avoid penalties. SAS helps you audit information and create reports that you can also share with authorities to prove you’re meeting the right data protection standards. With SAS, you can:
- Log and monitor use of personal data. Know who has accessed personal data, and keep records of usage.
- Audit data use. Identify relevant issues quickly through detailed audits so you can address issues and demonstrate compliance with privacy controls.
- Run reports. With centralized and flexible reporting, it’s easy to document processes and prove that personal data is not at risk.
- Ability to identify potential data breaches. Pinpoint problems so you can address them quickly – and demonstrate compliance.
- Relevant metrics. With SAS you can easily spot correlations and identify exceptions without building models.
- Easy to use. Users with a wide variety of skill levels can create, explore and share results, making it easier for entire teams to be on the same page with your organization’s data protection and compliance goals.
- SAS® Visual Analytics
Data visualization technology from SAS helps you explore and understand your data from a single, powerful in-memory environment.
- SAS® Enterprise GRC
Strengthen governance and foster trust by aligning GRC principles with business objectives and strategy execution.
Ready to take the next step toward getting the most value from your data? We offer several different technology, deployment and financing options, depending on your needs.
For pricing and ordering information, check out our purchasing options.
Or you can request a personalized price quote.


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