A SAIC employee was tasked with taking backup tapes from one facility to another. The employee leaves the tapes in his 2003 Honda Civic for 8 hours. The tapes and car radio were stolen. The tapes contain 4.9 million Tricare medial records ( a good reason to not have your social security number as the ID number on …
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.6 is available on fileconnect. The release notes are here. Release Highlights •”Symantec Protection Center v1.0″ introduces a centralized management console with single sign-on to integrated Symantec applications including Endpoint Protection, Brightmail Gateway, Data Loss Prevention, Web Gateway, Critical System Protection, and IT Analytics •”SEP Manager Web Console” delivers web-based access to …
A new Gartner Magic Quadrant covering Data Loss Prevention was released this week. Eric Ouellet spoke on this at Pre-Conference for Gartner’s Security Summit. In spite of several years of DLP hype, Ouellet indicated that it is not yet at the sweet spot in the security product hype cycle. People who implement DLP often don’t …
Last month, I read a blog entry over at zatznotfunny about Mozy that got me thinking. Perhaps its time to give in to best practice and backup my stuff. I last backed up my home computer in 1995. It was an AST computer with a built in tape drive of some sort. That computer has …
McAfee called me earlier this week about their Data Loss Prevention Host software. In addition to host-based software, they have an appliance check for leakage at the network boundary. Enterprises that have implemented full disk encryption now realize that their data is at risk from more than just a stolen laptop. Social Security Numbers, Credit …