Data Loss Prevention

Classify Data to Enhance DLP

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Implementing a comprehensive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program is essential for today’s working environment. Organizations cannot risk the harmful implications due to loss of data or to suffer the penalties from a regulatory requirement violation. Most DLP solutions today provide a means of protecting sensitive information based on pre-configured policy templates and easy-to-use policy wizards, but the problem with today’s DLP solutions is that they too often return false positives, so they are often run in audit mode rather than in prevent mode.

Titus Labs takes a unique approach to data loss prevention.

Information Classification - Data protection starts with data classification to easily identify exactly what information needs protection from whom. Data Classification is the process of classifying information according to its value and sensitivity to the organization. This results in the appropriate level of access controls being applied accordingly.

Immediate Feedback to the User - Blocking messages at a gateway does not provide the immediate feedback that users require. Titus Labs Content Validation feature in the Message Classification products provides immediate feedback to the user at the desktop when sensitive information is discovered and before a breach occurs.

User Awareness and Training - It is important and sometimes difficult to train employees on company policies to reduce instances of non-compliance. Policies should be clear on the type of content that users can and cannot send out, including such things as customer credit-card numbers, details on the company's intellectual property and the medical records of fellow employees. The easiest way to raise awareness and easily change user behaviour is by clearly labeling all email and documents with their business value or classification and level of sensitivity. By adding Titus Labs visual labels in email and documents, recipients are constantly made aware of the sensitivity of the information.

Compliment Server Based DLP solutions - Because the Titus Labs desktop solutions apply metadata to all email and documents, server based DLP solutions can read this metadata, and limit the access and movement of any sensitive data. In addition, reading metadata reduces the DLP’s reliance on automatic categorization, which sometimes leads to false positives.

Data Loss Prevention Solutions Include:

• Message Classification: Classifies, labels, and protectively marks email in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices.
• Document Classification: Classified, labels, and protectively marks email in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.