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Select an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention Solution
Info-Tech Research Group, May 2011
Plug the leak and protect your intellectual property with the right DLP solution.
Your Challenge
- As enterprise data grows in volume and importance, protecting it becomes significantly more important. One of the key tools in ensuring the protection of enterprise data is Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
- Data can be leaked via a variety of channels ranging from e-mail and IM to printing and disk burning. A DLP solution that doesn't address all of these options is leaving the enterprise more exposed than a solution that does.
- Enterprise security budgets are constrained yet must be spent on an increasing number of protection mechanisms; since spending on DLP likely takes money from other security solutions, enterprises must carefully determine if DLP is really right for their environment.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- DLP is a capable and potentially a very valuable solution that enterprises can deploy to enhance security, but it comes with a steep price in terms of hard cost and complexity.
- The DLP market has matured and stabilized at a rapid pace and most of the start-ups that initially defined the space have been acquired by large, stable vendors. Some independents remain, and continue to offer solid solutions, but the price point and complexity of DLP solutions may limit long time viability of vendors without other revenue channels.
- DLP will not stop all data loss, the truly malicious insider will always find a way around any technical controls. Work within its capabilities to achieve heightened security, but don't expect a panacea.
Impact and Result
- Internally sourced security breaches are three times as common as externally sourced breaches, and nearly as common as malware attacks, yet few enterprises take specific steps to defend themselves against these threats, even though they have the highest cost per incident.
- An investment in DLP will provide the enterprise with a tool designed to control these threats; a tool that is aware of all enterprise data, of where it resides, of how it moves; with the power to enforce automated responses to inappropriate activity.
Get to Action
1.Evaluate enterprise DLP needs and available solutions
Understand the DLP market, the players, and their products.
- Storyboard: Select an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention Solution
2.Identify the solutions that best fit enterprise needs
Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.
- Data Loss Prevention Vendor Shortlist Tool
*This is a bundle report with multiple titles
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