Noah Schiffman has written an article tackling the latest industry buzz phrase, DLP.
From SearchSecurity:
The traditional business-centric view of computer security has focused on the external threat landscape, often overlooking internal vulnerabilities. Subsequently, recent studies from Ponemon, Orthus and Vontu have revealed that a majority of corporate data loss, often termed data leakage, is caused unintentionally by an organization’s own actions.
The potential legal liability and brand-reputation damage from corporate data loss has spurred growing demand for data leakage prevention (DLP) technologies. These technologies have largely focused on the need for automated data management. This “inside-out” security paradigm has resulted in corporations striving to achieve rapid data governance via products that emphasize outbound content compliance (OCC) policies, insider threat management, and extrusion prevention systems (EPS).
For the full article read on.
[tags]DLP, Data Loss Prevention, Data Security[/tags]
