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Five data leak nightmares

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8471a98 in Network World on Security
 
When Home Depot lost a laptop containing personal information on 10,000 employees, it was just the latest in a string of high-profile data-leak incidents. The Veterans Administration, TJX, Monster.com, Fidelity National Information Services, Pfizer, AOL, Ameritrade the list goes on and on
 
Tags: home depot lost, high-profile data-leak incidents, veterans administration, personal information, laptop, aol, employees, ameritrade, pfizer
 
 
 
 
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Five data leak prevention companies to watch

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Network World Staff in Network World on Security
 
Find out why it is worth watching these five data leak pervention companies
 
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Data Leak Risks: A Problem Mid-Size Organizations Can't Ignore

2008-02-28 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...leak incident reaching $6.3 million in 2007, organizations of all sizes must act to protect sensitive data. This whitepaper explores the sources of data leaks, what a data breach could cost your organization, and what mid-size companies should look for in a solution
 
Tags: average cost, cost, protect sensitive data, data-leak incident, million, data breach, data leaks, organizations, whitepaper explores
 
 
 
 
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Data-leak prevention and encryption: Tools that can work together

2008-03-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3c194 in Network World on Security
 
Data leakage incidents generally occur when workers are performing everyday tasks, such as sending e-mail that inadvertently contains sensitive information. When this happens, data-leak prevention (DLP) products -- in theory should be able to flag it for sensitive keywords, fingerprinted documents or data structures, thereby helping to mitigate...
 
Tags: data leakage, data leakage incidents, data-leak prevention, data structures, sensitive information, everyday tasks, sensitive keywords, documents, workers
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania pulls plug on voter site after data leak

2008-03-19 12:27:41 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A voter-registration site run by the state of Pennsylvania has been found to leak sensitive personal data about voters, necessitating its shutdown with just a month to go before that state's critical primary
 
Tags: site, critical primary, pennsylvania, month, shutdown, voters
 
 
 
 
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Cisco and EMC announce data-leak prevention partnership

2008-04-07 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Cisco Monday at the RSA Conference said it is turning to EMC for core technology that will allow Cisco to gain a footprint in the data-leak prevention arena
 
Tags: cisco, data-leak prevention arena, cisco monday, emc, core technology, rsa conference, footprint, gain
 
 
 
 
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Verizon service targets data-leak protection

2008-04-09 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Verizon Business Security Solutions this week is expected to announce data-leak protection services designed to watch for and block unauthorized transmissions of content such as customer records, Social Security numbers, credit-card information and source code
 
Tags: credit-card information, social security, customer records, source code, week, content, block, transmissions
 
 
 
 
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Orchestria updates data leak prevention suite

2008-06-24 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Orchestria announces the sixth version of its data-leak prevention product, adding a way to block and monitor USB and print ports, watch Microsoft SharePoint for unauthorized corporate data, among other features
 
Tags: data, data-leak prevention product, microsoft sharepoint, orchestria announces, monitor usb, print ports, sixth version, features, block
 
 
 
 
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Start-up nexTier debuts data-leak prevention appliance

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Data-leak prevention gains another market entry with the debut of start-up nexTier Networks, which is touting a DLP appliance that monitors and blocks sensitive and unauthorized transmissions and learns by crawling the enterprise network to read for information content where data is stored
 
Tags: data, data-leak prevention gains, start-up nextier networks, information content, enterprise network, dlp appliance, market entry, blocks sensitive, monitors