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Stopping data leakage: Making the most of your security budget

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Overview The need to control the flow of corporate information is acute. This paper gives practical guidance on how to use your IT budget effectively to prevent data leakage at the gateway and endpoint and highlights the benefits of encryption in securing data if it does get intentionally or accidentally lost.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sophos	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	UNIX, Security Management, Database Management, Application Development, GPS - GIS

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Intel

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load balancing

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Security Strategy
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To help companies stem this flow of confidential information outside their direct control, security vendors have developed a family of tools called data leakage prevention (DLP). Most data leakage is not malicious.

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