The data loss prevention (DLP) market continues to consolidate. McAfee on Thursday said it agreed to acquire privately owned DLP company Reconnex for $46 million in cash. Last year, EMC/RSA acquired Tablus and Symantec acquired Vontu.Data protection is the top concern for CISOs, “but today’s DLP solutions take too long to deploy and obtain [...] read more »
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Hosted data loss prevention – a bridge too far?
Some security management will go out into the cloud, but some say data leakage prevention (DLP) should remain in-house.
Security vet Anne Bonaparte takes CEO job at Solidcore
Anne Bonaparte, a veteran security industry executive, is taking over the top job at change-management vendor Solidcore Systems. Bonaparte has spent time at a number of security vendors, including VeriSign, MailFrontier, SonicWall and Tablus. She takes over as CEO at Solidcore, as founder and former CEO Rosen Sharma steps asides to take the CTO job. [...] read more »
Data loss prevention from the inside out
Corporate information loss can often be credited to a company's internal organization, or lack thereof. In other words, in order to prevent data leakage, corporations must not only eliminate external threats, but also internal processes that could enable data leakage. In this tip, contributor Noah Schiffman highlights these internal risks as well as some storage-specific DLP issues.
Data loss prevention from the inside out
Corporate information loss can often be credited to a company's internal organization, or lack thereof. In other words, in order to prevent data leakage, corporations must not only eliminate external threats, but also internal processes that could enable data leakage. In this tip, contributor Noah Schiffman highlights these internal risks as well as some storage-specific DLP issues.
McAfee merges encryption, DLP with new suite
The antivirus vendor repackaged SafeBoot's endpoint encryption and encrypted USB tokens with its existing data loss prevention products.
Year of non-stop consolidation in information security market
Consolidation continued at a rapid clip with the data loss prevention and Web application security markets seeing the most activity
Trend Micro enters data loss prevention (DLP) market
The company is integrating Provilla's data loss prevention technology throughout its security portfolio.


