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Tag Archives: DLP

Going for the Gold, Man

October 13, 2009 – 6:00 am – It was all over the news on July 7, 2009. A lowly $400,000 per annum developer had stolen computer programs that contained Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce, while in the process of trying to download some open source programs … or so he apparently claimed. I know several of the security…
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Data Loss (or Leak) Prevention (DLP) – Damming the Estuary

January 20, 2009 – 6:00 am – For some time I have been seeking a metaphor for the well-nigh impossible task of protecting all the sensitive information in which organizations have been awash. And then I was invited to be on a panel at a recent “CSO Executive Seminar Series on Data Loss Prevention” event and so I…
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How Deep in DLP Are You?

October 15, 2008 – 6:00 am – While every security tool a vendor advertises to or demonstrates for you is purportedly the silver bullet that saves your organization from drowning in a virtual sea of hackers, rogues and spies, data-leakage protection – or prevention (DLP) is one for which many electrons have been slain to…
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