Data Breaches

Data loss prevention (DLP) is the plan and system designed to detect potential data breaches and prevent them through monitoring, detecting & blocking sensitive data in all states: in-use (endpoint), in-motion (network) and at-rest (storage).  DLP technologies range from firewalls and antivirus software to algorithms that detect abnormal access to designated DLP solutions that focus on data protection in one or all states. As outlined on IT Pro Portal,...

Today Absolute Software announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held Palisade Systems, a data security and data loss prevention (DLP) provider. The Palisade technology delivers enterprise data security solutions for web monitoring and filtering, data monitoring and DLP, based on Palisade’s patented PacketSure Data Security Platform. Palisade Systems solutions enable healthcare, corporate, government and education organizations to monitor and secure sensitive and proprietary intellectual property, and to prevent...

The 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report was recently released by Verizon. Following up with our discussion of the previous year’s report, the report attempts to provide insight into the nature of data breaches to help with organizational planning. The 2013 report looks at 621 confirmed data breaches affecting more than 44 million compromised records. The report explores more than 47,000 security incidents experienced from 19 organizations spanning across 27...