DLP - Data Leakage Protection
Data losses are preventable.
Data Loss Prevention, or Data Leakage Protection, is about how to prevent the intentional or accidental leakage of information from your organization. Myriad technology solutions exist. However, successful implementation depends on taking a strategic and planned deployment approach, starting with answering a few basic questions:
- Where are the majority of data leakages happening today?
The greatest risk to data leakage, is through email and instant messaging from a communications protocol standpoint, and probably USB keys and laptops from a hardware perspective.
- What data is actually confidential? What are the rules?
Even some of the world’s largest corporations and organizations classify the information into only 3 basic categories, Confidential, Restricted, General. Simplicity works best!
- Where is all the Restricted and Confidential data stored?
Once you’ve simplified your classification scheme and defined who / what should have access to those categories, now it’s time to rummage through your data and identify files and possibly even clean house.
Different technologies offer different schemes for identifying data types, and setting handling rules. Pick the one that will work within your environment to accommodate the types, volume, and accessibility requirements of your data.
Some DLP technologies:
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Check Point
- Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, and is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and end points, unified under a single management framework.
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McAfee
- McAfee has security products in almost every product category.
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RSA
- Security Division of EMC, providing Authentication, tokenization, DLP, and SIEM.
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Trend Micro
- Trend Micro is a global leader with over two decades of expertise in end point, messaging and Web security.
