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Data loss prevention technology

• Utilize SMB security tools to work from home safely

  With the global pandemic forcing enterprise workers home, SMB security tools can provide necessary protection for newly built home offices in order to keep business moving.  Continue Reading

• Data security guide: Everything you need to know

  This data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices.  Continue Reading

• Explore 7 data loss prevention tools for utmost security

  Explore how DLP products secure enterprise data and these seven specialized vendors that provide protection through varying installation, platforms and features.  Continue Reading

• How to secure data at rest, in use and in motion

  With internal and external cyberthreats on the rise, check out these tips to best protect and secure data at rest and in motion.  Continue Reading

• Build new and old strategies into insider threat management

  The risk of insider threat does not discriminate across industry lines. Learn how to build an insider threat management program that combines AI, zero-trust principles and a healthy security culture.  Continue Reading

• Combat the human aspect of risk with insider threat management

  When it comes to insider threat awareness and prevention, enterprises would be wise to marry a people-centric approach with a technology-centric approach.  Continue Reading

• Get the best botnet protection with the right array of tools

  Enterprise anti-botnet defenses, to be effective, must be added in multiple layers. No single security product will do the trick, but the right combo of tools can.  Continue Reading

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes checks out the Symantec Data Loss Prevention suite, featuring an architecture consisting of content-aware detection servers, endpoint agents and unified management.  Continue Reading

• Advanced endpoint protection takes on the latest exploits

  Advanced endpoint protection is arriving from all quarters -- machine learning, crafty sandboxes, behavior analytics. Learn how tech advances are being applied to endpoints.  Continue Reading

• Trustwave Data Loss Prevention: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines Trustwave Data Loss Prevention and how the product addresses data at rest, endpoint data in use and network data in transit for enterprises.  Continue Reading

• Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines the Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention product, which acts as a software plug-in with other Trend Micro security products.  Continue Reading

• Proofpoint Email DLP: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention, a specialized DLP product that's part of Proofpoint's cloud-based Information Protection suite.  Continue Reading

• McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes takes a closer look at McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention, a DLP software suite for deployment on hardware and virtual appliances.  Continue Reading

• RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines the RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite, which covers data in use, in transit and at rest for corporate networks, mobile devices and cloud services.  Continue Reading

• Ransomware prevention tools to win the fight

  Fighting malware today means battling ransomware. Learn what ransomware prevention tools you need to acquire and how to perfect using the tools your company already owns.  Continue Reading

• Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention: Product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention and more of the vendor's DLP product lineup, which cover data in use, data in transit and data in the cloud.  Continue Reading

• CA Technologies Data Protection: DLP product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes examines CA Technologies Data Protection, a data loss prevention suite designed to protect data at rest, in transit and in use across enterprise devices, networks and cloud services.  Continue Reading

• Blue Coat DLP: Data loss prevention product overview

  Expert Bill Hayes takes a look at Blue Coat DLP, a single appliance data loss prevention system that works with the company's web security gateway products.  Continue Reading

• Choosing secure file transfer products for your enterprise

  Are you concerned about file transfer security? Expert Karen Scarfone discusses the best products for transporting files while maintaining their confidentiality.  Continue Reading

• Voltage SecureMail encryption tool: Product overview

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone takes a look at Voltage SecureMail for encrypting email messages in the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Trend Micro Email Encryption: Product overview

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone examines Trend Micro's suite of email encryption software products for securing email messages in the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• DataMotion SecureMail software: Product overview

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone examines DataMotion SecureMail software for encrypting email messages in the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Symantec Desktop Email Encryption: Product overview

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone examines Symantec Desktop Email Encryption, a tool for encrypting email messages for individuals within the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Proofpoint Email Encryption: Product overview

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone examines Proofpoint Email Encryption products, which come with data loss prevention capability and a Secure Share add-on for secure file sharing.  Continue Reading

• Readers' top picks for DLP products

  The companies and DLP products that organizations consider, when they seek to address compliance and data security requirements across multiple platforms and environments.  Continue Reading

• Lessons in mobile data loss protection for enterprise IT pros

  With mobile devices everywhere in the enterprise now, learning tactics for data loss protection must become an IT priority.  Continue Reading

• Comparing the best data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes examines the strengths and weaknesses of top-rated data loss prevention (DLP) products to help enterprises make the right purchasing decision.  Continue Reading

• Five supporting technologies for DLP products

  Expert Bill Hayes examines five technologies that can complement data loss prevention products and improve enterprise security.  Continue Reading

• How to deploy the right DLP products for the right jobs

  Expert Bill Hayes maps specific data loss prevention products to three deployment scenarios to better help readers make their own purchase decisions.  Continue Reading

• The top threat intelligence services for enterprises

  Threat intelligence takes data from multiple sources and turns it into actionable, contextual information. Expert Ed Tittel takes a look at the top threat intelligence services.  Continue Reading

• Tips for creating a data classification policy

  Before deploying and implementing a data loss prevention product, enterprises should have an effective data classification policy in place. Expert Bill Hayes explains how that can be done.  Continue Reading

• How to keep track of sensitive data with a data flow map

  Expert Bill Hayes describes how to create a data flow map to visualize where sensitive data is processed, how it transits the network and where it's stored.  Continue Reading

• Six criteria for buying data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes lays out six steps to take in order to buy the right data loss protection (DLP) products for your organization.  Continue Reading

• Three usage scenarios for deploying data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes details usage scenarios for deploying data loss prevention: standalone suites, integrated tools and standalone/integrated DLP combined.  Continue Reading

• Introduction to data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes describes how data loss prevention (DLP) products can help identify and plug information leaks and improve enterprise security.  Continue Reading

• Symantec Endpoint Encryption: Full disk encryption product overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of Symantec Endpoint Encryption, a full disk encryption product for Windows laptops, desktops and servers.  Continue Reading

• Sophos SafeGuard: Full disk encryption product overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of Sophos SafeGuard, a full disk encryption product for laptops, desktops and servers.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft BitLocker: Full disk encryption software overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of BitLocker, Microsoft's native full disk encryption software for Windows laptops, desktops and servers.  Continue Reading

• McAfee Complete Data Protection: Full disk encryption product overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of McAfee Complete Data Protection, a full disk encryption product for securing client-side computers and servers.  Continue Reading

• DiskCryptor: Full disk encryption product overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of DiskCryptor, an open source full disk encryption product for securing client-side computers and servers.  Continue Reading

• Dell Data Protection | Encryption: Full disk encryption product overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of Dell Data Protection | Encryption, a full disk encryption product for securing client-side devices.  Continue Reading

• Apple FileVault 2: Full disk encryption software overview

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the features of Apple's bundled full disk encryption software for Mac OS X, FileVault 2.  Continue Reading

• The top full disk encryption products on the market today

  Full disk encryption can be a key component of an enterprise's desktop and laptop security strategy. Here's a look at some of the top FDE products in the industry.  Continue Reading

• Comparing the best email encryption software products

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the best email encryption products in the market and offers guidelines to help enterprises determine which ones may be best for their organizations.  Continue Reading

• How to procure email encryption software

  Expert contributor Karen Scarfone examines the most important criteria for evaluating email encryption software for deployment within the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Breaches reignite intellectual property protection

  Enterprises revisit data classification and protection strategies after rocky 2014.  Continue Reading

• The fundamentals of FDE: Comparing the top full disk encryption products

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the top full disk encryption products to determine which one may be best for your organization.  Continue Reading

• The fundamentals of FDE: Procuring full-disk encryption software

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines the most important criteria for evaluating full disk encryption options for deployment within an enterprise.  Continue Reading

• The fundamentals of FDE: The business case for full disk encryption

  Expert Karen Scarfone outlines the benefits of FDE to help businesses decide if the storage encryption technology is right for their organization.  Continue Reading

• The fundamentals of FDE: Full disk encryption in the enterprise

  Expert Karen Scarfone examines full disk encryption, or FDE, tools and describes how the security technology protects data at rest on a laptop or desktop computer.  Continue Reading

• Elements of a data protection strategy

  In this excerpt from Data Protection and Lifecycle Management, Tom Petrocelli addresses the importance of securing data for regulatory compliance and outlines the five components of a data protection strategy.  Continue Reading

• Using control change management to improve attack resistance

  Learn how control change management can free your enterprise from the "widget mentality" -- and ensure better attack resistance.  Continue Reading

• Security survey results: Six information security myths dispelled

  A rose is a rose is a rose, but Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity surveys bust six security myths, proving infosec is maturing as a profession and a practice.  Continue Reading

• Centralized antivirus management: Get a bird's-eye view of AV defenses

  Centralized antivirus management technologies provide enterprises a bird's-eye view of AV defenses and establish applications that protect against unwanted malware and viruses.  Continue Reading