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Any data leakage of core information from an organization will damage reputation and corporate credibility. Data leakage can happen through many different channels.
Mitigate the risk of a costly leak by employing the ContentKeeper Unified Threat Management solution.
Threat - Data leakage is emerging as a serious and an increasingly perilous menace. It poses a real threat to your organization’s resources. Data leakage can be unintentional and can be as simple as an employee sending sensitive customer information through the network without encryption.
Insider threats have, for the first time over taken viruses as the most significant IT worry (U.S. Computer Security Institute). Most organizations believe insiders are the biggest threat to intellectual property. Data leakage threats spans across all areas of business. The many possible types of data leaked makes this threat a serious concern; the threat entails leaking of confidential information of your company – intellectual property, trade secrets, financial information, marketing analysis, customer and employee identification information such as bank account numbers, social security numbers or customer contact details.
Intellectual property is an intrinsic part of your organization and it must be safeguarded accordingly. The results of compromised Intellectual Property are devastating and the statistics say it all:
- Among firms which experienced a data leakage 48% report lost market share, 44% lost sales, 30% product commoditization and 27% lower margins…”1
- 66% of internal breaches occurred in private companies.2
Theft of customer and client data is equally damaging to an organization. High courts around the world are setting precedence which places duty of care on the organization holding sensitive information of employees and customers. It takes little time for an employee to send client personal details or company information via web-based email, P2P, forums or via electronic chat rooms so that the employee can profit through several “slips” a month.
Spyware such as key loggers can access passwords thereby enabling them to help themselves to anything your network. A key logger is a software which captures the user keystrokes sending them to a remote location. Just by establishing a simple P2P network, client and customer information can be sent to different computers within seconds (Learn more about the P2P threat).
Solution –Best practices state that there must be aligned security policies with a state of the art monitoring and protection solution. Your organization’s people need timely access to data – the right information at the right time. Allowing your employees the freedom to create value for your organization is the first step in the right direction. The optimal solution for your organization is one with no trade-off between security and efficiency. Your people are your number-one value creators; therefore simply blocking them from a valuable source of information is not the right answer. The important issues are risk mitigation, audit ability as well as continuous auditing. In this, a centralized system is the key as end users do not have the knowledge, skills, or time to manage the risks involved in data leakage.
The threat of data leakage and the solutions in mitigating the risk seems overwhelming. ContentKeeper Technologies understands the criticality of maintaining the confidentiality of your company information and developing a reliable security system to protect your customer data. ContentKeeper's security solutions and appliances will help you monitor and control dispersion of sensitive information over email (web-based and work), chat, Instant Messengers and P2P file sharing systems. ContentKeeper is uniquely deployed as a Transparent Ethernet bridge and can sit on the backbone of the network, allowing it to see all the traffic. The bridge technology also means there is little latency and therefore improves response times. For more information on ContentKeeper's products and solutions please visit the products web page.
ContentKeeper helps you manage your business efficiently. We have a range of solutions and tools specifically designed to manage Internet traffic, prevent Spyware and monitor P2P networks (and block attachment transfer), and filter access to web-based email. Our trained IT Security consultants and solution providers can assist you to understand the areas of concern in your network. Information is a commodity and its loss will cause irreparable damage to your reputation and brand image, which translates into plummeting profits. Mitigating the risk of data leakage is the first step to ensuring your organization’s success.
1Jim Brown, vice president of Aberdeen Group stated in 2000
2Global Data Leakage Survey conducted in 2006 by the InfoWatch analytical centre
