Monday February 06 , 2012
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Data Leakage Prevention


The Challenge

Information is a critical asset in organizations today. The various types of confidential data could be customer’s records or even organization’s intellectual property. It may be stored in, and accessed from, databases, document repositories, file shares, end-user file systems, and portable storage.

With the evolution of the web to Web 2.0, information exchange is made simpler and easier as it may be used to support the business operations. Hence, security defenses should be in place to guard essential information from outbound data loss.

Some common security challenges organizations face starts from the following:

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Figure 1: The Problem of Data Leak

Information leakage has thus become a priority to many organizations for various reasons, specifically when challenged with the following questions:

  • How is the confidential information being used in the organization? How was the information sent? How can the organization protect its customer’s data leaked inadvertently from an employee and ensuring compliance with the governing regulations?
  • Who is using the confidential information? Who received the confidential information?
  • Where is all the confidential information stored throughout the network? Where did the confidential information go to?
  • When is the confidential used?


The Solution

Our market leading data loss prevention (DLP) solution is designed to protect organization’s confidential information to prevent internal and external data leaks, improves business processes and manages compliance and risk by discovering where data is located, monitoring its use, protecting it and securing who and what go where and how.

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Figure 2: Comprehensive Data Protection

This solution comprises of four, fully integrated modules which can be deployed as an individual module or in phases according to the organization’s requirements and needs. With the solution, you can now:
  • Discover and Classify data distributed throughout the organization
  • Monitor who is using what data from where and how
  • Protect data by mapping policy-based controls to business processes
The BenefitImplementing the DLP solution provides a means of mitigating that risk of data loss, including enforcement for both data and user policies that map to business processes. This helps the business to run smoother and empowers the business units to become content aware.

Our solution provides organizations with the following benefits:

  • Ability to discover, monitor and protect sensitive information
  • Visibility of data at rest, in use and in motion
  • Visibility of data at rest, in use and in motion
  • Ability to manage all types of data, regardless of format and location
  • Ensure content, user and regulation awareness within the organization
  • Ease of use for enforcement of policy controls
  • Comprehensive analysis and reporting capability