DLP is an Increasing Concern
A single incident of data loss can erode your organization’s competitive advantage, weaken consumer confidence, and result in fines or penalties from regulators.
According to a recent research study by Dynamic Markets:
- Only 48% of organizations surveyed have systems to prevent confidential data from being uploaded to the web
- 24% reported that their CEOs or other executives had lost confidential data due to data breaches
- 37% report that employees have lost data
- 20% have seen confidential data loss due to breach of regulatory compliance and posts to social web sites
DLP Requirements
DLP solutions should meet the following requirements:
- Monitor all channels of communications including web, email, FTP, instant messaging, printing, and USB thumb drives
- Discover sensitive data stored throughout the organization’s network
- Support robust detection techniques – ranging from keyword dictionaries and regular expressions to digital fingerprinting and heuristic analysis
- Generate a very low percentage of false positives
Solutions
Proficio recommends the following partner solutions to monitor and prevent data loss:
Websense – secures web and email, IM, FTP, and other protocols. The solution also offers the capability to discover sensitive data stored throughout your network and, if necessary, take remediation action. It extends the data security coverage to laptops and can be used to restrict copying of sensitive data to removable media as well as disable print-screen or copy-paste features.
Proofpoint – focusing on email traffic, Proofpoint detects, reports or blocks both structured and unstructured data according configurable policies.
Imation – takes control of all the removable data storage devices and media in your organization. Set policies for users, removable device types, passwords, off-network usage, encryption, or device usage. Retain an audit trail of what files are stored and used and remotely revoke devices exposed through theft or loss.
