» How to prevent data from leaving your network
Three data loss prevention tools reviewed
by David Strom
Data loss prevention (DLP) is an emerging field with a lot of different products and players. The idea is to stop information from leaving your internal networks in close to real time, so you can identify the leaker or thief before too much damage (and ensuring lawsuits) happen.
A recent study by DLP vendor Proofpoint found that more than third of the respondents had an incident in the last year, and a quarter of them had investigated leaked information as a result of a blog post.
There are more than a dozen different DLP vendors. We show you three typical products, how they work, and what kinds of information they track.
- Global Velocity's GV-2010 security appliance,
- BlueCoat Networks DLP appliance, and
- Sendmail's Sentrion email server.
Each is designed for somewhat different situations,.... (READ MORE)
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"“When we spoke with the folks at Global Velocity - the company's corporate headquarters is in Clayton, Mo., with an office in Palo Alto, Calif. - we were impressed with what we termed “DLP on steroids”. This is one hot box … We liked this product and the company for their creative approach to a real problem: deep analysis at very high speeds and reduction of the number of boxes needed to put on our perimeters.”"