Data security case study
A lot of companies do V/A (vulnerability assessments) with scanners like Beyond Security or Nessus. We took a hybrid approach for an internal security assessment using a Fidelis Security Systems network DLP appliance for detecting data loss vulnerabilities and structured human interviews to identify assets and analyze business threats such as competitors who might steal […]
Fidelis granted a patent for network DLP
Interesting and a tribute to the great work that the amazing Gene Savchuk did on Fidelis XPS – the original extrusion prevention system or what we’re now calling network DLP (data loss prevention) With the granting of U.S. Patent No. 7,467,202 B2, Fidelis Security Systems became the first in the DLP industry to develop a […]
A buyer’s guide to network DLP
My friend David Etue, who is VP Product Management over at Fidelis Security Systems has been writing a work in progress over the past couple years called A buyer’s guide to network DLP As David writes – Network data leakage prevention (network DLP) is the process of stopping the unauthorized disclosure of digital assets out […]
Speed is everything
Jeżeli wydaje ci się, że wszystko jest pod kontrolą, to na pewno nie jedziesz wystarczająco szybko. If you think everything is under control, it certainly is not going fast enough. Mario Andretti,Formula 1 Driver I saw this quote today and I was reminded of a takeaway from Andy Grove’s book – “Only the paranoid succeed”. […]
Security Leadership
Gas prices may go down and electricity may get cheaper – but In 2009, most of us will have less money to spend and our clients will be tough on pricing and orders. For information security and compliance professionals it is the time to find, implement and enforce cost-effective security countermeasures. BUT HOW?
Preventing data loss or reacting to data loss.
I love New York but I live in Israel. DLP (Data Loss Prevention or extrusion prevention) is an important category of IT security that helps protect data from leaving the network. Keeping the good stuff in, as opposed to keeping the bad guys out. Israel has a booming IT security industry with Checkpoint, Radware, Algosec, […]
Data loss by cellphone
Is your 50-something IT manager the last one to know about the company getting acquired? An extremely obvious yet perhaps unpleasant observation for over-40 IT managers is that under 30 employees know a lot more about technology and ways to bypass the company security safeguards than they do. A young, hip, mobile and techology-facile workforce […]
