Data Loss: Where to look for a fix?

Enterprise data loss prevention (also called data leak prevention) solutions ensure sensitive data does not leave the network. Focussing on data loss via email, USB drives, and mobile devices, and identifying sensitive data stored on network file servers, they ensure your organization’s data stays in safe hands. Let’s take a look at some of the best companies providing such solutions.

Check Point: Integrating with Microsoft Exchange Server to protect outgoing email, it delivers fingerprinting of sensitive files, watermarking, SSL encrypted traffic inspection, and central policy management to prevent sensitive data from leaving the company.

Digital Guardian: Staying true to its name, DG is one of the better endpoint DLP agents that can integrate complex use cases. It has network DLP solution available as hardware, software, or virtual appliance.

GTB Technologies: GTB technology uses methods like data fingerprinting and native SSL decryption to intercept accidental disclosure and theft of sensitive data. It focuses especially on DLP.

Fidelis Security: Integrating with other capabilities such as network forensics and advanced threat detection, it prevents network data loss natively, without a third-party proxy.

Forcepoint: Forcepoint’s DLP suite covers network, endpoints, and data discovery on-premises and in the cloud. It is a joint venture of Raytheon and Vista Equity Partners (owner of Websense).

Intel Security: Preventing data leakage and ensuring enterprises remain compliant with internal/external policies, it combines DLP with encryption and protects data in on-premises systems, mobile devices, and other end-points.

Symantec: It also prevents data loss from on-premises, and mobile devices and email using content matching using regular expressions or “full file fingerprint” to detect unstructured data.