Data Loss Prevention Solution

Organisations today are challenged by the issue of data loss which encompasses every piece of stored data ranging from confidential information about a customer to sensitive intellectual property. The threats are not just from external hackers using malware trying to get into an organisation, but also your staff! Be it accidental or deliberate, data loss can happen at any time. What about that email that your finance administrator wants to send to her personal email address so that they can work on that file from their home computer. Are those attachments encrypted? Should they have even been allowed to leave the internal security domain? What about that individual who has malicious intentions after being made redundant? They have just copied half your file server onto a high capacity USB memory key and are about to walk out the front door!

What is it?

Content-aware Data Loss Prevention tools lets you apply dynamic policies that control how electronic data is used and shared within your organisation. Having a solution that is Content-aware enables inspection and classification of your stored information content within an object, such as a file, email, application or data store. The policies that you define can then log, classify, report, encrypt, restrict access, and apply encryption for that object regardless of whether it is static (stored on disk), in use or in transit. Data Loss Prevention technologies allow organisations to better educate end users and change their behaviour when it comes to valuable data assets, along with enforcing better business practices when it comes to handing and transmitting sensitive company data.

What are the benefits?

Our Data Loss Prevention solutions deliver the following benefits:

• Enabling compliance with external regulatory privacy and data security requirements
• Protecting your intellectual property
• Providing a deterrent for malicious users within your organisation
• Enforcing acceptable usage policies
• Auditing and Monitoring communications in and out of your organisation
• Prevent malware related threats from extracting information from within your organisation

Technologies:

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention