Better news than the misleading drop-off in breach reports, says Ponemon, is the steady increase in the use of technology like encryption and data loss prevention (DLP) software, which guards network exits like e-mail and USB ports to block the leakage of sensitive data.
Removable media such as flash drives can introduce malware, so set up all devices to automatically scan for viruses and use data loss prevention (DLP) software to restrict the copying of confidential data onto unencrypted media.
The technologies include host security, network intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), firewall and data loss prevention, along with McAfee's popular management software, ePolicy Orchestrator.
For years, organisations have strictly policed the "edge" of the enterprise in order to impose the required levels of security control and governance, from layering on firewalls and writing policies, to adding the likes of data loss prevention solutions and implementing perimeter networks that sit separately to the organisation and control access to company data.
CloudUp Networks, a bootstrapped startup, has built technology for things like data classification, data tagging and data loss prevention.
Data loss prevention has been adopted at around 8% a year.
The analyst reckons the incoming EU regulation will drive 65percentnt of data loss prevention buying decisions through 2018.
A recent ongoing suit "asserts that Zscaler has been illegally using Symantec's patented technology relating to a variety of network security technologies, including web security, security scanning, data loss prevention, intrusion prevention and intrusion signature analysis".
Next, it provides basic data loss prevention (DLP) with remote wiping, document expiration, controls for saving and sharing and so forth.
