On March 7, 2012 Varonis and an Independent Research Firm will present a new approach to DLP that leverages enterprise context awareness.
London: Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software has identified a critical missing component to traditional DLP processes - enterprise context awareness – i.e., knowledge of who owns the data, who uses the data, and who should and shouldn’t have access to the data. Traditional DLP solutions that focus on endpoint and network protections commonly fail to fully protect critical data because they focus on symptomatic, perimeter-level solutions instead of addressing a much deeper problem — the fact that users have inappropriate or excessive rights to sensitive information. “For DLP technology to be successful, you must inventory and classify all of your sensitive data and understand your information flows,” advises Forrester. “This is hard to do if you have hundreds, possibly thousands, of terabytes of unstructured data[1].
- REGINE HARTMANN
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