Dark Reading Starts Educational Series
The Dard Reading reporters have set their mind on educating their readers and helping them understand IT security better. The series is also designed to help IT people explain such topics to atechnical employees easier and faster. They have started with a piece explaining Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – the concept, what DLP solutions can and can’t do.
Here’s a short excerpt of the article defining and explaining what a Data Loss Prevention solution is and does:
In a nutshell, DLP is a type of software that is designed to seek out sensitive data — either traversing the network or sitting idle on your computer systems — and enforce policies for handling it. If a user attempts to send out sensitive data via email, post it to a Website, or copy it to a USB storage drive, DLP technology can identify that activity and record it.
More important, most DLP applications are also designed to prevent the user from executing tasks that might compromise the data or cause it to leak out to unauthorized sources. The DLP software might turn off the “write” capability that would allow a PC to copy certain data to an external storage device, or it might disallow an email user from sending the data to another user.
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