Here is an excerpt from a post on Gartner’s Blog Network by Andrea DiMaio. Although he claims not be a security expert, Andrea provides some good insight on Web 2.0 risks in light of the affect of the Twitter outage.
He touches on three key risks:
- Malicious software that may be downloaded through sites
- Unavailability of those sites when they are needed
- Data posted on sites that may unwillingly reveal information that may negatively affect government operations
Click here to read his suggestions on how to address these risks.
Gartner recently released its analysis and published the 2009 Gartner MQ for Content-Aware DLP.
In reviewing the results, there don’t seem to be any surprises:
- RSA, Symantec, and Websense are the only vendors in the leaders quadrant
- MIA are Reconnex (now McAfee) and Vericept who have dropped from the leaders quadrant
The one thing to note, is that the report has been renamed to ‘content-aware DLP’ which is meant to highlight identification techniques that go beyond the basic keywords and pattern matching.
It helps differentiate the vendors in this report and helps parse out the ones that toss around the term ‘DLP’ just to grab customer attention.
The true DLP product developers/vendors in the leaders quadrant provide:
- the most comprehensive set of capabilities both at the network AND client
- technologies that prevent loss of a wide array of data, including regulated and IP.
- Breadth and depth in technological capabilities
- Innovation and vision to address data loss from a broader perspective
Don’t get me wrong, the rest may be suitable to address specific use cases, but in my view, they lack in various areas to truly approach data loss in a holistic fashion.
This is the third report of its kind from the team at Gartner. Other analyst firms have released their take on DLP and the technology vendors in this space. For example The Forrester Wave on Content Security also provides a great analysis.
On a side note: Great to see Websense pull off a 3-peat !
As I speak to my friends and colleagues, it seems that there is still a large percentage of my social circle that have not fully embraced internet or online banking . This continues to surprise me, but in reading the recent article on CNET News, it would seem that my personal Canadian micro-study reflects the results of a larger (more scientific) study done by the Gartner Group in the US and UK.
They found that among the 4000 or so adults surveyed in the U.S., 47 percent said they now bank online. In the U.K, 30 percent echoed the same response.
41 percent of U.S. consumers and 38 percent in the U.K. blamed security as the most important reason for not banking over the Internet.
