thematic review To remain competitive, a modern company must be able to work with big data, and therefore effectively protect it, including from leaks using DLP systems.
we will discuss the most pressing issues of practical application of DLP systems and try to identify ways to resolve them.
Prevention or detection? thematic review
According to the observations of Sergey Baryshev, the leading engineer of the information security department of the Compulink Group of Companies, just a few years ago, it was precisely by the presence/absence of a mechanism for blocking data transmission channels that one could draw a fairly clear line between DLP solutions from foreign vendors (who put data leak prevention first) and domestic ones (who focus more on monitoring functionality).
“Consumers’ minds are being actively hammer
With an approach limit by the job function email database capabilities of some domestic products that solves the problem of preventing the loss of confidential data indirectly, i.e. through the investigation of leak-relat cases and subsequent punishment of those responsible, through the development of an analytical apparatus for incidents that have already occurr,” notes Sergey Vakhonin, Director of Solutions at Smart Line Inc. “And it is quite funny to observe attempts to “lean on the market” by vendors whose solutions are bas on processing screenshots of computer screens.
At the same time, the normal practice abroad is to first prevent
Leaks, exclude the use of data transmission channels that are not requir by employees to perform their business functions, and only then study those incidents that occur under conditions of authoriz use of potential data leak channels.”
According to Mr. Vakhonin, in a couple of years
The answer to the question of what DLP is will be interpret unambiguously on the Russian market, when the level of maturity afb directory of our consumers reaches the foreign level. “Apparently, it is no coincidence that this autumn the the key locations of information assets most active vendor in marketing suddenly announc that its solutions have the ability to block certain channels, and this is suddenly really important, while another vendor – an apologist for the principle “let them steal first, and then we will find and punish, since the success of DLP implementation is determin by the number of dismiss employees”, quietly adds the functions of blocking devices and mail protocols,” he not.