DLP Rolling Review: Wrap-up
Posted by
Randy George and InformationWeek
October 07, 2009
Vendors offer more options for protecting data throughout its travels. We'll put their claims to the test.
DLP Rolling Review: RSA Takes Classification Up A Notch
The RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite sports a stellar user interface and an uncanny ability to sniff out sensitive data wherever it resides.
DLP Rolling Review: Safend Safeguards At The Endpoint
Safend estimates that 60% of corporate data resides on endpoints, and that's where Safend Protector Endpoint aims its DLP resources.
DLP Rolling Review: Code Green's DLP Appliance
The CI 1500 performed well in many areas and not so well in others.
DLP Rolling Review: Symantec's DLP-9
We tip our hats toSymantec for bringing to market almost everything we look for in a comprehensive data loss prevention suite via its DLP-9, formerly from Vontu.
DLP Rolling Review: TrendMicro Leakproof
Trend seems to have fully integrated Provilla's DLP technology into its core offerings.
DLP Rolling Review: Sophos Endpoint Security
Sophos has made strategic acquisitions in an attempt to round out its range of endpoint security capabilities.
We've got interesting results and observations that will help you decide if DLP fits your risk management strategy, and if so, which vendors you should be talking to.
The most significant reason to bring a DLP product into the organization is its enterprise data discovery capabilities. Sensitive information, whether it's customer credit card numbers, next quarter's financial projections or the schematics for a new tech gadget, sits in various file systems, databases and employee laptops across the enterprise.
Traditional security tools have a significant blind spot when it comes to protecting data because they have little visibility into all the places where such information resides. Before you can stop a potentially damaging leak, you have to know where the data are--and that's where DLP shines.
The ability to discover critical information across almost every conceivable data source was a major factor in our testing and grading methodology. We tested each vendor's ability to unearth data such as credit card social security numbers and other personally identifiable information within Office documents, e-mail, PST files, and structured databases.
Three vendors—RSA, Symantec and Code Green—all performed enterprise-wide data discovery. Of those three, our editor's choice goes to both RSA and Symantec. Yes, we're hedging here, but we must. RSA provides rich detail, and a more elegant management interface than Symantec's. It also offers a well-designed dashboard that let us quickly scrutinize various data discovery incidents. However, Symantec gets credit for its ability to perform data discovery against IBM DB2 and Lotus Notes databases, something RSA was unable to do at the time of testing.
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