McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention software is one of the core security functions which protects enterprises from the risk associated with unauthorized transfer of data from within or outside the organization.
Data loss is defined as confidential or private information leaving the enterprise as a result of unauthorized communication through channels such as applications, physical devices, or network protocols. McAfee Device Control allows monitoring and controlling external device behaviour based on the device attributes rather than the content being copied. Using McAfee Device Control, devices attached to enterprise computers, such as smart phones, removable storage devices, Bluetooth devices, MP3 players, or Plug and Play devices, can be monitored, blocked, or configured to be read-only.
Version 9. A policy is first applied saved to the ePolicy Orchestrator server, then assigned deployed to the endpoints. Each of these policies is assigned the revision number 1 when it is created, and the number is incremented each time the policy is changed. The revision number is important for supporting troubleshooting processes, to ensure that policy changes are actually applied to the endpoint computers. It is also used when requesting an agent bypass or uninstall key. Policies applied to ePolicy Orchestrator must be assigned and deployed to managed computers in order to be used.
Info on iPhones It looks like McAfee have confirmed that we cannot allow phones to be Read Only and allow charging at the moment. Symantec have also confirmed the same. Until and unless the Drivers can be installed or detection takes place the Phone would not be charged.
IPhone also carries the HDD within it. So, when you insert the Connector, it detects the HDD as well. It is also worth reading the below article which relates to a recently reported USB Flaw which reinforces the idea that we should not be allowing people to plug mobile phones into end points.
OK So when we first put this in it was very generic. Users were either allowed to plug USB devices in or were not. What we were asked to do next was to block Everyone generally but then allow devices rules which were literally per device per user.
The below steps show you how to do this. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. What is McAfee Device Control? NET Framework 3. Verify that the ePolicy Orchestrator server name is listed under Trusted Sites in the Internet Explorer security settings. Two folders and network shares must be created, and their properties and security settings must be configured appropriately.
The folders do not need to be on the same computer as the McAfee DLP Endpoint Database server, but it is usually convenient to put them there. If, for example, an email is blocked, a copy of the email is placed in the Evidence folder. Whitelist folder — Text fingerprints to be ignored by the endpoint software are placed in a whitelist repository folder. An example is standardized text such as disclaimers or copyright.
McAfee DLP Endpoint software saves time by skipping these chunks of text that are known to not include sensitive content. In secure systems, this folder might be locked down. In that case, you must temporarily change the permissions for this folder.
Otherwise, the installation fails. McAfee recommend completing all software installations before resetting the permissions. Click the Sharing tab, then click Advanced sharing. Select the Share this folder option. A confirmation message explains the effect this change will have on the folder.
Click Remove. The Permissions tab in the Advanced Security Settings window shows all permissions eliminated. Click Add to select an object type. If your budget allows, choose the best and fastest configuration that you can afford.
Manage fewer than 5, nodes If you have fewer than 5, nodes to manage with the McAfee ePO server, disk configuration is rarely an issue. Use your normal procedure for configuring the disks on the server. The following example shows this typical disk configuration.
The following example shows this RAID disk configuration. Disk partition and RAID configuration for 25, to 75, nodes Manage more than 75, nodes If you have more than 75, nodes to manage with the McAfee ePO server, use two separate servers. SAN storage is a valid method for storing your SQL database, but adds a potential layer of complexity to your SQL implementation that should be understood.
Many SANs are grouped into a generic classification known as tiers. Plus, this data is accessed often but does not perform excessive transactions on the SAN. Remember, the primary job of the McAfee ePO server is to distribute policies and collect events.
You might think you need one McAfee ePO server for each major geographical region for efficient bandwidth utilization, but that is not true. These users have repositories, which are simple file shares, at each office to handle the distribution of content. See Repositories. The key concept to remember about McAfee ePO servers is less is better. The fewer McAfee ePO servers you have the easier it is to maintain your environment. There are many McAfee ePO server users with , nodes being managed by one server.
The theoretical limit of McAfee ePO servers in relationship to managed nodes is even higher with the new Agent Handler technology added to the ePolicy Orchestrator software version 4. When choosing the operating systems for your servers, use bit versions, where applicable, for improved performance. This means the operating system for both the SQL Server application and SQL database requires bit versions where possible, if the hardware supports it.
The following sections offer hypothetical environments to provide some guidelines for organization size and hardware requirements. These example provide minimum requirements for hardware. McAfee recommends you exceed these requirements to improve performance and allow for growth, wherever possible. It is the main workhorse behind the McAfee ePO server application.
McAfee recommends you exceed the minimum recommendations wherever possible. The following table lists the hardware recommend for the various organization sizes. You can reduce hardware costs by installing the McAfee ePO server and SQL database on the same physical server for a small organization.
This small organization is easily managed by the McAfee ePO server and offers room for growth. The SQL Express database can only be used for testing the McAfee products and can also be used in production environments with fewer than nodes. Medium organization example A medium organization ranges from 5, to 25, nodes. A single McAfee ePO server can easily manage this size organization with properly placed repositories to update content and software to the agents.
A single McAfee ePO server can manage the reporting of all McAfee products in the environment with properly placed repositories to update content and software to the agents. Very large organization example A very large organization ranges from 75, to , nodes. If you have the budget for additional hardware resources, exceed these recommendations.
They play an important roll in your McAfee ePO infrastructure. How you configure them, and which type you use, depend on the needs of your environment. Contents About repositories Overview of repository types Where to place repositories How many repositories do you need About Global Updating About repositories Repositories are where the agents on your managed systems obtain the security content that keeps your managed environment up to date.
However, this is not how repositories are created. A repository is nothing more than a file share located in your environment somewhere that your clients can access easily. Unlike your server, repositories do not manage policies, collect events, or have code installed on them. The ePolicy Orchestrator server always acts as the Master Repository. It keeps the master copy of all the content needed by your agents. The server replicates content to each of the repositories distributed throughout your environment.
As a result, your agents can retrieve updated content from an alternate and closer source. Your ePolicy Orchestrator server requires does not require configuration to make it the Master Repository.
It is the Master Repository by default. If you are already using one of these repositories and your environment works well, then do not change the configuration. If you are starting with a new installation, with no repositories, use a SuperAgent because they are easy to configure and reliable.
You might already have FTP servers in your environment and you can allow McAfee content to reside there as well. No authentication reduces the chance a client might fail to pull its content. You might already have HTTP servers in your environment placed in the proper regional locations. HTTP servers can be very fast serving out files to large environments. Your HTTP servers allow clients to pull their content without authentication.
Since most administrators are familiar with the concept of UNC shares this might seem like the easiest method to choose. But, this might not be true. If you chose to use UNC shares, you must: 1 Create the folder 2 Adjust share permissions 3 Change the NTFS permissions 4 Create two accounts, one with read and another with write access All of these tasks increase the chance of failure since these processes must be completed manually risking human errors.
Your agents might not properly update if your agents cannot authenticate to your UNC share because they are not part of the domain or the credentials are incorrect SuperAgent repositories A SuperAgent is a way of creating a McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator repository. Also, the process is less prone to human error because there is minimal data entry, no shares to create beforehand, and no user permissions to adjust.
A SuperAgent simply uses any existing McAfee Agent in your environment and does not require any additional software other than the agent itself. For example, if you have 20, McAfee Agents you can easily choose a few to designate as SuperAgents via policy.
The SuperAgent needs only one open port, the agent wake-up call port you already defined for all your agents is the default port. Since your McAfee ePO server is instantly aware of your SuperAgents, it manages replication and adjusts which SuperAgent your clients choose to use for their downloads. To create a SuperAgent requires these four general tasks. See McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4. Once you have created the new "SuperAgents" group you can drag any system into that group and it become a SuperAgents the next time it communicates with the McAfee ePO server.
The following sections describe this process. Give the new policy a distinctive name, for example SuperAgent policy. A common mistake is accidentally changing your primary McAfee Agent policy and turning all your nodes into SuperAgents. The new group appears in the System Tree list.
Assign the new SuperAgents policy to the new SuperAgents group. The McAfee Agent : General dialog box appears. Dragging a system into the new SuperAgents group With the SuperAgent group configured you can assign the SuperAgent policies to individual client systems simply by dragging them into that group.
This converts the client systems into SuperAgents. Change an existing system into a SuperAgent. The new SuperAgent repository appears in the list.
Where to place repositories You need to determine how many repositories you need in your environment and where they are located. To answer these questions you need to look at your McAfee ePO server managed systems and your network geography. Remember, the purpose of a repository is to allow clients to download the large amount of data in software updates locally instead of return to the McAfee ePO server and downloading the updates across the slower WAN links. In addition, your repository is used by your agents to download new software, product patches, and other content, for example Host Intrusion Prevention System content.
Typically you can create a repository for each large geographic location but there are several caveats. You must avoid the most common mistakes of having too many or too few repositories. In the previous examples, it is a waste to use 70 MB of bandwidth to download a DAT file to a repository for only system agents.
Those system agents can download the same file using only 20 MB of bandwidth. How many repositories do you need How many repositories you need depends on the hardware where the repository is installed.
Most repositories can serve out files to several thousand nodes. If you are using clients as SuperAgents, they are more efficient if they are dedicated to your clients instead of sharing the SuperAgent client hardware with other applications. There is no hard technical limit to how many nodes a repository can handle, but with a properly crafted update task for your clients, repositories can update a significant number of nodes.
The following table is an estimate of the updates a repository can handle and the hardware needed. These specifications can be influenced by many factors, for example how you update content, products, and patches.
The following sections provide some examples of three common organization sizes and their repository size. Example 1 — Small Organization with One Office The small organization example has approximately 3, nodes of workstations and servers. In this example you can use the primary ePO server to act as the only repository. It has one data center in New York where all traffic destined for the Internet must be routed.
There are four offices in the U. Each office has approximately 3, to 4, nodes with a T1 connection back to the New York office.
A dedicated SuperAgent repository is placed in each of the three major offices that connect to the data center. Their only job is to serve out files to the McAfee Agents at each office. Example 3 — Medium to Large Organization with Multiple Global offices The medium-to-large organization example has 40, to 60, nodes distributed across three major regions. The U. Each office has approximately 7, nodes. These other offices range from nodes 3, nodes.
The APAC offices include two smaller offices. Region Office Number of nodes Servers U. Office 1 5, Repository U. Office 2 6, Repository U. Your repository does not have to be dedicated to McAfee as long as it's not serving files to several thousand agents. Plus these WAN links are already saturated with traffic. Fortunately, the APAC offices each have their own fast dedicated connections out to the Internet and do not have to route Internet traffic back to the data center in the UK.
You must completely randomize the agents updating schedule so you spread their updates throughout the day. Because the SuperAgent is local to the data center replication from ePO will be very fast. Improve agent update performance In large environments, the ePolicy Orchestrator server is already very busy distributing policies and collecting events.
You can improve performance by changing the agent policy so agents don't pull content from the McAfee ePO server itself, the default master repository. Making this change forces the agents to use only the repositories you created manually. In smaller environments, where fewer nodes are managed, there's no need to make this change. The server can handle all of these tasks without impacting performance. If you are only replicating DAT files, the bandwidth use will be approximately 70Mb of replication per day.
Agents don't use all the DAT files that are copied to the repository, but there are 35 incremental DAT files that must be available to all agents in case they are behind on DATs. In order to determine if you need a repository in a specific location, you must determine what is more costly in terms of bandwidth usage; replicating 70mb worth of data to a repository, or telling the agents to go to the next nearest repository which may not be geographically near the agents.
Calculating bandwidth for client pulls of updates The bandwidth used to update a new product dramatically increases when updating a new product to clients. But you can calculate the bandwidth if you know the size of the patch or product being downloaded. At a minimum, each of your clients must download Kb per day for DAT files. This file replication uses approximately 70 MB of bandwidth per day over a slow WAN link could negatively impact the WAN link to India since it would occur all at once.
Instead have the agents connect across the WAN link to the next closest repository to download their DAT file updates. The next office might be in a larger office, for example the Tokyo. The agents can randomly pull their DAT files throughout the day, and their total bandwidth use is only 40 MB. See Client task to configure the download.
In this case do not use a repository in India. You probably have a repository in New York depending on the speed of the WAN link to New York and how quickly the patch needs to be pushed out. You might find a balance if you carefully craft your client tasks to pull updates and patches at a gradual pace instead of deploying the patch to all nodes in one day.
See Deploying products for detailed information. Conclusions Some ePolicy Orchestrator users put a repository at geographic sites that have only a few dozen nodes. If your site does not have at least to nodes it cannot benefit from the bandwidth saved using a repository. If there is no local repository, the agents will go to the next nearest repository for their updates.
The exception to this rule is if you are deploying a larger software package. In this case it would be more efficient to place a repository temporarily at a smaller site so the clients software can download the 23 MB file locally. Then disable this repository once the client is rolled out. Global Updating is used to update your repositories as quickly as possible whenever the master repository changes. This is great if you have a smaller environment fewer than 3, nodes with no WAN links.
But Global Updates generate a lot of traffic that could impact your network bandwidth. If your environment is on a LAN and bandwidth is not a concern then go ahead and use Global Updating. If you are managing a larger environment and bandwidth is critical then disable Global Updating. Global Updating is disabled by default when you install ePolicy Orchestrator software version 4.
Confirm Status is disabled. If not, click Edit and change the status. Eastern time and the scheduled pull changes the contents of your Master Repository , your server automatically initiates the Global Update process to replicate the new content to all your distributed repositories. The Global Updates process follows this sequence of events: 1 Content or packages are checked in to the Master Repository.
A common mistake users make with a large environment and where bandwidth is critical is thinking they should have Global Updating enabled to make sure they receive their DATs quickly. These users enable Global Updates and everything works fine. Engine updates typically occurs twice per year. McAfee posts the new engine to the public site and the McAfee ePO server pulls it down and starts replicating it to the distributed repositories and starts waking up agents to receive the new engine immediately.
This can saturate your WAN links and roll out an engine that you would preferred to upgrade in a staged release. You can place multiple remote Agent Handlers throughout your network. Once in place, your remote Agent Handlers use a work queue in the SQL database as their primary communication method. The Agent Handlers check the work queue frequently and perform the requested action. In ePolicy Orchestrator 4. Since the McAfee ePO server was responsible for handling every agent connecting to it, there was a limitation on the deployment size single server could handle.
This is accomplished by adding multiple Agent Handlers to scale agent connectivity. To understand what Agent Handlers do, it's important that you also understand their limitations. They check the McAfee ePO server database work queue approximately every ten seconds to find what tasks they need to perform.
This is one of the reasons that each Agent Handler needs a relatively high speed, low latency connection to the database. A repository is a simple file share meant to keep update traffic local. While an Agent Handler has repository functionality built in, it has much more intelligence and requires constant communication back to the SQL database. This constant communication can saturate the WAN link.
For more information about Agent Handlers, including many of the most common questions about Agent Handlers, see the McAfee Agent Handlers white paper. Before you install your ePolicy Orchestrator server software, an understanding of the hardware requirements is very important.
See the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4. Plus, you probably have a McAfee consultant with you to answer your questions and help you successfully begin using the McAfee ePO server. Both installation processes have their advantages and disadvantages. The following sections list some of the advantages and disadvantages of each upgrade.
For example, if you ran extensive SQL scripts or altered your database in anyway outside of the normal operating procedures you might want start with a clean installation. Do not copy those policies during your in-place upgrade. Assess your environments and policies periodically to confirm they still apply to your environment. This includes your SQL database and any agent keys. See KnowledgeBase article KB for detailed backup procedures.
Remove any unsupported software. For example, old deployment tasks or old patch installation tasks. If the task is not in use remove it. In addition, remove any shell machines that were imported into ePO from Active Directory. Shells are placeholders in the tree and do not actually have an ePO agent installed. Try to delete any events older than 60 days. Confirm you have plenty of disk space for the SQL database.
For example, patches for older versions of products that are no longer used. Replicate those patches to your distributed repositories prior to upgrading. For example, when your hardware is old, has failed, or is out of warranty. Or, when you upgrade your version of ePolicy Orchestrator software and you decide to upgrade your hardware as well. The database stores everything about ePolicy Orchestrator. For example, your tree structure, your product policies, administrators, events, and server settings.
Then you are left with a clean database that you replace with your original database that has all your original settings. For additional information, see ePO 4. This is the ideal situation and ultimately reduces any potential problems. Unfortunately, one of these items may need to be changed. See KnowledgeBase article KB Once your database has been restored, you can turn off your old McAfee ePO server and all agents automatically start communicating with the new McAfee ePO server.
Version 4. Using versions of ePolicy Orchestrator software prior to release 4. This compromise was difficult because it often required extensive rebuilding of policies and tasks on the new McAfee ePO server using the process in Move the server. All the following steps were needed to try to mimic the older server: 1 Install a new McAfee ePO server.
Your new McAfee ePO server is ready to use if the previous items are completed and you have confirmed and validated your settings. Now it is time to start moving agents to the new McAfee ePO server. The traditional way of doing this was to redeploy a new McAfee Agent from the new McAfee ePO server which would point your agents to the new server. This is inefficient because you already have a working agent on all your clients, but the agents are still pointing to your old McAfee ePO server.
To fix this use the Transfer Systems feature on ePolicy Orchestrator 4. Using Transfer Systems feature on ePolicy Orchestrator 4. The Transfer Systems task gives the existing agent a new sitelist. You cannot, for example, move agents from an ePolicy Orchestrator 4. You must configure a registered server before you can use the Transfer Systems feature. The Transfer Systems task is one of the most powerful and useful features of ePolicy Orchestrator 4. For example, you can make changes on your test McAfee ePO server and move a group of live production agents to your test server to see the results.
When done, you can easily transfer those agents back to the original production McAfee ePO server. Before you begin Transfer Systems is only available on ePolicy Orchestrator 4. Use the ePolicy Orchestrator 4.
The Transfer Systems dialog box appears. Once a managed system has been marked for transfer, two agent-server communications must occur before the system is displayed in the System Tree of the target server.
The length of time required to complete both agent-server communications depends on your configuration. The default agent-server communication interval is one hour. The agent is the liaison between all point-products and the McAfee ePO server.
The System Tree is the logical representation of your managed environment. Contents Agent functionality What is the System Tree Agent functionality How the McAfee Agent works, and the benefits provided by its modular design are important concepts to understand in order to effectively configure and manage your environment.
This 5 MB executable file is not a security product on its own; instead it communicates to all the McAfee and partner security products and passes the appropriate information to and from the McAfee ePO server.
Figure One agent to communicate with many products McAfee Agent modularity The advantage to the agent design is modularity. The modular design allows you to add new security offerings to your environment, as your needs change, using the same agent framework.
McAfee can build a standard on how policies, events, and tasks, for example, are passed to endpoint solutions. You never have to worry about communication or which ports to open when you add a new product such as Host Data Loss Protection to your endpoint. All those items are controlled by the agent. Agent modularity also allows the development teams to work more efficiently and integrate new products into the McAfee ePO server faster.
For example, if there is a patch for the Endpoint Encryption product VirusScan Enterprise cannot be affected by the patch. See Partner Products for details. Deploying agents You can deploy the McAfee Agent multiple ways. But there are a few concepts that can help you to understand. The McAfee Agent is a 5 MB executable file that can simply be executed manually or more commonly deployed on a larger scale to hundreds or thousands of nodes.
Each agent is created dynamically during the initial installation of your McAfee ePO server. There are a few things inside your agent executable that are unique to your environment, which is why the agent can only be obtained from your organization's ePolicy Orchestrator server.
Obtain a copy of your McAfee Agent. The New Systems dialog box appears. If you look inside this executable file you can see what makes it unique. Your custom package has the communication keys for your specific ePolicy Orchestrator server and a sitelist. Without these keys the agents cannot talk to your specific ePolicy Orchestrator server. The sitelist. This is important because there are many situations when this file becomes outdated. For example, if you rename your ePolicy Orchestrator server or give it a new IP address, or if you have multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers you will have multiple unique McAfee Agent files designed to communicate with the ePolicy Orchestrator server where is was created.
It becomes outdated if, for example you have made changes to your ePolicy Orchestrator server such as rebuilding it with a new IP address, or checked in a newer version of the McAfee Agent into your server. Keep the agent file up to date It is important to download the latest agent file and give it to the appropriate teams so they have the latest agent file version for new deployments. Make sure you know who has the agent executable in your environment and always control it by choosing a central share that you update every time you make changes to your agent.
This method works well if you have a smaller environment and good control over the environment with the appropriate administrator rights. You can also solve situations where a few agents need to be deployed to new machines on the network.
If you can connect to the share using credentials, you know the McAfee ePO server can deploy an agent to the target machine. If you cannot open this share, there is no way the McAfee ePO server can deploy an agent remotely. Failure to connect to the target machine is usually because of a credential failure or a firewall that is blocking NetBIOS communication. Confirm you have the appropriate rights on the target machine before trying to deploy the agent from the McAfee ePO server.
This can be scheduled using the McAfee ePO server tasks to run at specific intervals, such as once per day. This is not always the case in many larger organizations. Machines need to be deleted and placed into appropriate containers in AD for ePolicy Orchestrator to properly mirror your AD structure. Just because the machine exists in Active Directory does not mean it is turned on and active on your network.
During the push from the McAfee ePO server if the machine is not connected to the network then the push fails. If not, you will end up with excessive shells or placeholders in your System Tree. These shells are machines that have been imported from your AD server but have never received a McAfee Agent.
The following figure is an example of shell machines without agents installed. Shell machine appear in the previous figure with no date in the Last Communication column.
Make sure your environment is properly covered with McAfee Agents to avoid these shell machines. Deploy the agent using third-party tools You can deploy the McAfee agent using a third-party tool that you already use for patches and new product deployments. Following is an example of this command: FramePkg. The best strategy for ePolicy Orchestrator compliance is to make your systems all receive the McAfee Agent during the imaging process.
To obtain complete ePolicy Orchestrator compliance requires planning and communication with your build team to ensure the McAfee Agent is part of every system from the beginning. That also ensures any required McAfee product and associated policy is pulled from the McAfee ePO server by the agent on your machines. If context is insufficient, it looks inside the document using content awareness. There are several techniques commonly used for content awareness:. DLP solutions can be helpful in a variety of use cases, including:.
Individuals in organizations are privy to company information and can share this information, which can lead to accidental or intentional data loss. Modern storage can be accessed from remote locations and through cloud services; laptops and mobile phones contain sensitive information and these endpoints are often vulnerable.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that data is secure, making a data loss prevention strategy so important.
These standards often stipulate how businesses should secure Personally Identifiable Information PII , and other sensitive data. A DLP policy is a basic first step to compliance, and most DLP tools are built to address the requirements of common standards. An organization may have trade secrets, other strategic proprietary information, or intangible assets such as customer lists, business strategies, and so on.
Loss of this type of information can be extremely damaging, and accordingly, it is directly targeted by attackers and malicious insiders. A DLP policy can help identify and safeguard critical information assets.
Implementing a DLP policy can provide insight into how stakeholders use data. In order to protect sensitive information, organizations must first know it exists, where it exists, who uses it and for what purposes.
Before you implement a DLP solution, pay special attention to the nature of sensitive information, and determine how it flows from one system to another. Identify how information is transferred to its consumers — this will reveal transmission paths and data repositories. Make sure to investigate and record all data exit points. Organizational processes may not be documented, and not all data movement is the outcome of a routine practice.
Engage IT and business staff in the early stages of policy development. This stage of the process should include identifying:. Before the DLP strategy is put into practice, it is essential to establish incident management processes and ensure they are practical for every data category. Start DLP implementation by monitoring organizational data. This lets you fine-tune and anticipate the effect that the DLP may have on organizational culture and operations.
By jumping the gun, and blocking sensitive information too soon, you may harm central business activities. You may be tempted to try to solve all data protection issues at once, but this is not a good approach. A good DLP implementation should start with low hanging fruits, establish rules, and ensure they are continually considered and improved. Involve all relevant stakeholders, and ensure they provide feedback on new data types, formats, or transmission paths that are not listed in the current DLP strategy, or not currently protected.
DLP solutions are great at monitoring data flows and securing against known threat patterns. However, malicious insiders and sophisticated attackers can act in ways that do not match any known pattern, or cannot be captured by DLP security rules.
A category of security tools called user and entity behavior analytics UEBA can help. UEBA tools establish a behavioral baseline for individual users, applications, network devices, IoT devices, or peer groupings of any of these. This can complement traditional DLP solutions, alerting security teams of data-related incidents that have slipped past DLP rules.
For an example of a UEBA system that can help prevent data breaches due to unknown threats, learn more about Exabeam Advanced Analytics. Today, data is more available, transferable and sensitive than ever.
The best way to stop data leaks is to implement a data loss prevention DLP solution. DLP enforces an automated corporate policy, which can identify and protect data before it exits your organization.
Many tools, including dedicated DLP tools, email servers and general purpose security solutions, offer data loss prevention policy templates. These templates can help you easily create DLP policies that define which organizational content should be protected by a data loss policy. For example, DLP can ensure content identified by the policy is not transmitted to external individuals, modified or deleted. With many different data loss protection tools providers available, learning about the top offerings in the field is a good starting point.
In this post, we define DLP and describe why data loss prevention tools are essential. Read more: Data Loss Prevention Tools. It seems every day new security breaches are announced, some of which affect millions of individuals.
These breaches are about more than just data loss; they can impact the overall availability of services, the reliability of products and the trust that the public has in a brand. Read on to learn about security breaches and where you can start to minimize the chance that a breach occurs in your organization. Data loss prevention DLP practices and tools help protect data at rest, in-transit, and on endpoints.
The goal is to reduce and eliminate risks such as data theft and data leakage. Cloud DLP enables organizations to protect data residing in the cloud, but capabilities and practices vary between solutions.
Discover key features and practices. For more in-depth guides on additional information security topics such as data breaches , see below:. Cybersecurity threats are intentional and malicious efforts by an organization or an individual to carry out attacks on another organization or individual.
SIEM security refers to the integration of SIEM with security tools, network monitoring tools, performance monitoring tools, critical servers and endpoints, and other IT systems. UEBA stands for user and entity behavior analytics which is a category of cybersecurity tools that analyze user behavior, and apply advanced analytics to detect anomalies.
See top articles in our User and Entity Behavior Analytics guide. A security operations center SOC is traditionally a physical facility with an organization, which houses an information security team.
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