Enterprise
Data Loss Prevention

As enterprises expand, the amount of data they collect grows exponentially. From customer information and intellectual property to employee data and financial records, bigger companies accumulate the kind of highly sensitive information that attracts malicious outsiders and falls under the scope of data protection regulations the world over. This brings with it increasingly complex challenges that enterprises must address in the development of their data protection strategies.

Enterprise DLP solutions are extensive and packaged in agent software for desktops and servers, virtual and physical appliances for monitoring networks and email traffic, or soft appliances for data discovery.

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To be successful, a holistic DLP program should consist of the following seven categories:

• Data governance
• Risk assessment
• Regulatory and privacy compliance
• Data classification
• Policies, standards and procedures
• Data discovery
• Remediation processes
• Training and awareness

DLP enables information security professionals to apply controls to safeguard the same sensitive corporate data (data discovery, remediation processes).

Most importantly, privacy protection is an integral part of DLP's methodology. It strongly advocates for the use of privacy assessments to protect a company’s sensitive data based on an evaluation of regulatory and statutory compliance. It also identifies risk assessment as being essential to the identification, classification and categorization of data throughout a company’s information systems in terms of data at rest, data in motion and data at the endpoint. It recognizes the importance of effective and enforceable privacy policies, procedures and standards. And finally, it realizes that a company’s employees require comprehensive education and situational awareness training as part of its privacy program.

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Data Loss Prevention and logging data movement activities are obviously the primary goal of any DLP software. The objective of a DLP program however is extensive to meet a number of other data security challenges:

• Avoid disruptive and damaging distractions caused by sensitive information flow to the wrong people at the wrong time
• Prevent inappropriate or non-work-related use of resources
• Help meet industry-standard or data security compliance mandates (ex. SOX for public USA companies, HIPAA for USA health care, PCI for credit card handling, etc.) or enforce internal “written” data handling policies that also require confirmation of control or monitoring

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Endpoint Protector controls every local channel on controlled computers, including:

• USB & peripheral ports
• Scanning data in motion: Detailed control through both content and context inspection
• Scanning data at rest: In-depth content and context inspection through manual or automatic scans

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