Case Study: Multinational Human Resources Consulting Firm achieves enterprise-wide data visibility and rapid reduction in policy violations with Fortra's Digital Guardian

Enabling Employees to Protect Sensitive Client Information

A multinational human-resources consulting firm with about 29,000 employees and more than 1,000 offices worldwide faced a growing risk to client and candidate confidentiality: thousands of job openings, millions of candidate records, and regulatory PII obligations were being handled across disparate IT environments by a lean IT team. The new director of privacy and security needed a low‑impact, managed solution that preserved the company’s culture of trust while giving enterprise‑wide visibility and enforceable controls to prevent inadvertent or malicious data loss.

The company deployed Fortra’s Digital Guardian Managed Security Program to automate data discovery and classification, translate acceptable‑use policies into enforceable rules, and provide user prompts and analytics without heavy IT overhead. The MSP delivered granular visibility into data movement, prevented risky behaviors (including unauthorized downloads), and allowed aggregated, non‑punitive reporting; employee awareness rose immediately and policy violations dropped sharply within two months as users began self‑correcting.