Active testing and monitoring of the information-protection strategy is crucial to keep the security culture alive. In the case of data classification, the primary goal is to achieve user acceptance of your defined data-classification labels and policies to ensure that users do not resort to cheating. To make sure that you are headed in the right direction, you need to define specific test scenarios aligned with your critical success factors in order to validate and satisfy the significant business and functional requirements for your classifications and policies.

It should also be noted that often only a small part of the information you communicate to your recipients is clearly understood. Due to this, it is essential to check global communication in small test groups that can be adjusted if necessary. Furthermore, build active monitoring of the information-protection activities and reference it to the context of the information, so that you can test the accurate classification and applied protection of the data. Your technical solution should provide you with a useful toolkit to achieve this target.