Canadian Security Connection

Assaf Litai, a well-known authority on data loss prevention (DLP) technologies discusses his definition of DLP, considerations for CIO’s, what to expect from vendors, the evolution of DLP as well as his take on the convergence of anti virus and DLP.

How would you define a data loss prevention solution?

The tricky questions in front of enterprises today are – which is my most important data? How is it being used? These are the questions that a DLP solution answers. To put it in simple words, it assesses risk associated with data. This is a DLP’s core responsibility – to give the management visibility into data and its usage.

Read the remainder of the excerpts from his interview on CXO.com.

According to an Everything Channel study of CIOs, seven in 10 midsize CIOs are using social media technology for their businesses.

Although the survey found that midsize CIOs still use social media tools more for personal reasons (73.5 percent) than for business (69.9 percent), respondents also said that social media can help improve business networks and gather product ideas — that is, once they figure out how to use it.

Productivity and effieciency seemed to be the major concern…however,  I would argue that SECURITY needs to be on that list of  deciding factors when establishing and implementing a usage policy for these various social media tools.

Here is a good example of the increased ‘pressure’ from constituents with respect to using social media tools: 

“… we’re investigating on how to manage and monitor connections while maintaining security,” Gary Allen, CTO at the Amarillo Independent School District in Amarillo, Texas.

 Mr. Allen is investigating his organization’s future with social media, as …

the number of requests to incorporate it (social media) have increased.

To any of you in the same boat as Mr. Allen and his colleagues, here is a great whitepaper that should help provide some insight into implementing a security posture for these Web 2.0 sites.