Symantec Updates DLP Soln For Social Media

Symantec Corp. has launched an updated version of Symantec Data Loss Prevention designed to help businesses prevent data leaks in their changing IT environments. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10.5, the latest version of Symantec’s data security suite, enables the use of social media while guarding against data loss, protects information in private clouds and helps organisations take ownership of unstructured data, such as documents, spreadsheets and email.

“Information is today’s most critical business asset and traditional boundaries for it no longer exist,” said Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Symantec India. “Constantly evolving IT environments drive the need for new data protections. To protect information, Symantec must go where the data goes.”

• Helping Businesses Go Social

  Social media is being increasingly used in business for collaboration and communication. Yet in Symantec’s 2010 State of Enterprise Security Symantec learned that 84% of CIOs and CISOs considered social networking sites to be a serious threat to their security.

  To enable the use of social media while addressing this threat, Symantec Data Loss Prevention has enhanced compatibility with Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Meebo to stop the flow of sensitive data.

  Symantec Data Loss Prevention also minimises IT support costs by providing a more transparent Web experience for end-users that seamlessly prevents data exposure without confusing the user with broken links or error messages.

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• Secure Private Clouds

  Companies are increasingly turning to private clouds to help them cut server and storage costs. However, security is a chief concern with clouds, even when they live inside the corporate firewall.

• Take Ownership of Unstructured Data

  Symantec has recently introduced Symantec Data Insight that is now integrated into Symantec Data Loss Prevention. With Data Insight, organisations can discover where their most critical information lives, monitor its usage and protect it by automatically inferring data ownership to speed up the incident remediation and data clean-up process.

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• Expanded Interest in Data Loss Prevention

  Interest in data loss prevention is high with 89% of organisations at least considering a DLP solution, according to Symantec’s 2010 study.