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After years of fighting intruders, viruses and spam, organizations are now fighting

with a data breach relatively new but extremely important safety issue:. In March 2008, the accidental exposure of confidential information of the company was cited by analyst IDC as the number one threat, above

viruses, Trojans, and worms1. At the end of the year, 80 percent of respondents in another

the survey agreed that data security is one of the biggest challenges they face, with 50 percent

of respondents admitting they had experienced an incident of data loss in the IDC survey found 2008.2 IP as the most common type of information leakage and 81 percent of respondents believe that protecting the Information and Control (IPC) - defined as the monitoring, encryption, filtering and blocking of sensitive information contained in data at rest, data in motion and data in use - as an important part of their overall strategy for protecting data. The solution of the highest priority is the prevention of the IPC data leakage (DLP) who are deployed

the organization's perimeter and endpoint computers.1

Importance of monitoring employee use 1

Choice of 4% or 5 on a scale of 5 points

Enterprise Messaging 56%

Lost or Stolen Laptop 51%

e-mail or Web posting on the Web 37%

Instant messaging 33%

Lost / stolen mobile device 33%

Media devices 19%

Other 12%

The intentional or accidental exposure of information, from the legal protection of personal information on intellectual property and trade secrets is something that affects the environment in its broadest sense, involving lost

or stolen laptops, USB sticks and other devices, email and Web 2.0 applications, such as IM.

Respondents to the survey from IDC show that the number of points out there (see Figure 1).

The challenge now is to not only protect the data against the threat of theft or corruption

malware, but to add a second layer of security to prevent data being accessed if it is lost.

The growing importance of DLP

There are several reasons for the movement of data leakage prevention at the forefront of enterprise security.

High-profile, reputation damaging data leaks

The bad publicity from data leakage can cause damage to reputation, loss of customers, and

sometimes even ruin for businesses.

The number of examples of high-profile breaches of data security is booming.

Government agencies, financial institutions, educational institutions, industrial giants and even presidential candidates - no one is immune

. Recent high-profile incidents have included:

secret government documents on Al Qaeda and Iraq were left on a commuter train in the

United Kingdom. (June 2008)

Personal information of nearly 1,000 bank customers was lost by an employee of the Bank of France, after the data were copied to a USB stick in clear who was then lost. (November 2008) 4

Stop Data Leakage: Making the most of your security budget

An email containing the names, positions, salaries and social security numbers of 192 teachers and staff members was accidentally sent to the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute students.

The hackers were accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from retail outlets in the United States by nine entering the wireless networks of major retailers.

An investigative journalist MyFoxDC bought a Blackberry on the sale of the McCain-Palin campaign U.S. presidential its inventory of used office, only to find 50 phone numbers for people connected

with the cam.