Data discovery, classification and remediation company Spirion LLC, has announced the opening of its first data centre in South Africa and its third international expansion in the past five months to support customers moving to Spirion’s software as a service (SaaS) offering.
The company explains that the new data centre, located in Cape Town, will help Spirion customers adhere to national data sovereignty rules, such as South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and leverage Spirion’s solution to find every single byte of unknown data, and classify and remediate it for seamless compliance.
Spirion says the new data centre will help it to meet growing demand from the local market and give South African companies more effective tools to protect their most sensitive data.The facility joins two other recently opened international Spirion data centres in Germany and Australia.
As data usage and footprints skyrocket, Spirion says it is equipping enterprises to manage their data more effectively. Recently, the data security posture management (DSPM) vendor launched significant enhancements to its Sensitive Data Platform (SDP), enabling a greater level of visibility and control over business-critical data with an enhanced scanner node architecture, enabling the analysis of data at petabyte scale.
Spirion CEO, Kevin Coppins explains: “Protecting what matters most – sensitive data – requires accurate data discovery and classification. Spirion now offers this critical capability for any sensitive data-related initiative regardless of industry and geographic location. ”
