In a Request for Proposals (RFP) released July 27, the Port of Long Beach’s Information Management Division — which is responsible for the port’s IT Services portfolio — wants to hear from tech vendors with a focus on data classification. The port, ranked second-busiest on the West Coast in 2018 by JOC Group, is seeking a data classification/digital rights management solution.
Data Classification, the port said in the RFP, is the process of organizing data into categories to improve its ease of retrieval, sorting and storage. “A well-planned data classification system makes essential data easy to find and retrieve. This can be of particular importance for risk management, legal discovery and compliance,” the RFP’s authors wrote. “The Data Classification initiative will identify all data and where it resides within the Port … (and) develop a common taxonomy to classify data, i.e., public, private, confidential, etc.” Digital Rights Management, according to the RFP, is “the method to protect copyrights for digital media,” and includes using technologies to limit copying and use of copyrighted work and proprietary data. For the port, that means “implementing (a) digital rights management system to protect documents containing sensitive information from unauthorized access, files from unauthorized copying, viewing, printing, forwarding, deleting, and editing.”
The vendor selected will help develop the appropriate policies and procedures needed; identify the platform to house the information; and identify the “appropriate solution required to protect the data based on its classification.” The estimated amount of the contract is not specified. Responses are due in electronic format only by 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 17.
