Data leakage prevention is a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Keeping sensitive data from leaving the network has quickly risen to the top of many IT and compliance officers’ lists of priorities. DLP will likely be the first thing most organizations spend their 2010 information security budgets on. Any time sensitive data gets into the hands nonauthorized individuals, it can constitute a data security breach. Malicious employees may take and use sensitive customer or employee information to commit fraud, identity theft or sell to others for quick, easy money.
Loading ...
There's More Than One Way to Plug Enterprise Data Leaks
Posted by: Kevin Prince January 12, 2010 05:00 AMData leakage prevention is a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Keeping sensitive data from leaving the network has quickly risen to the top of many IT and compliance officers’ lists of priorities. DLP will likely be the first thing most organizations spend their 2010 information security budgets on. Any time sensitive data gets into the hands nonauthorized individuals, it can constitute a data security breach. Malicious employees may take and use sensitive customer or employee information to commit fraud, identity theft or sell to others for quick, easy money.