Intellectual
Property Protection
According
to Freedonia Group, a market research firm in Cleveland, corporations
spent $95 billion on corporate security in 2005 alone, but most
of that money was spent on surveillance efforts, such as installing
closed-circuit cameras and hiring guards to patrol the premises.
They're failing to protect themselves from more sophisticated
forms of espionage.
| Counterfeits
and intellectual property (IP) theft cost companies
millions in the first half of 2006. An estimated 760
copyright and trademark intellectual property thefts
in 69 countries between January and June 2006 cost companies
nearly $700 million, up 7 percent from the year-ago
period, according to Gieschen Consultancy's 2006 Mid-Year
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Your
organization's intellectual property—whether that's
confidential data, patents, trade secrets or just employee
ideas—are often more valuable than an organization's
physical assets. Employees are the weakest link when it
comes to protecting Intellectual Property and today's organizations
are concerned about trade secrets leaking out through electronic
cracks. Organizations lose millions of dollars each year
because source code, documentation and other confidentaion
information is electronically sent outside the organization.
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Learn
more about products that can drastically reduce the risk of data
loss.
Discovering exposed confidential information
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Using
high speed scanning technology to identify private information
in stored data files is the first step towards proactive
information governance. Once private information is discovered,
protective actions can be taken to protect the information
and minimize the threat of a data loss incident. Lost laptops
and stolen desktop and servers are only part of the over
all equation that can cost an organization millions in direct
and indirect expenses. Computers are often discarded with
their hard drives intact and removable media is commonly
disposed of insecurely or misplaced all together - both
of which may contain personal information.
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Encrypting confidential information
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Data encryption technology utilizes encryption algorithms
to secure data against unauthorized disclosure. Data Encryption
allows for the encryption of an entire hard drive or individual
files, on laptops, workstations and servers, to deliver
a high level of security for confidential data at rest.
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Monitoring data-in-motion
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Continuously monitoring network traffic for the presence
of unencrypted personal and confidential information is
key to protecting customer data. Detection of privacy policy
violations takes place at wire-speed with real-time alerting
and preventative blocking measures being triggered instantly
at the time of detection. Details of the violation are reported
and typically include source IP, the destination IP, the
exact personal information identified and how it was being
transferred.
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Protecting confidential e-mail
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Public key encryption is the method that most e-mail encryption
applications use to secure the contents of an e-mail. Anyone
who intercepts and attempt to read an encrypted e-mail will
only see meaningless gibberish. Securing e-mail in transit
as it leaves your corporate network is essential in securing
confidential date send via e-mail.
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Data-in-Motion
Prevent confidential information "leaks".
Data-at-Rest
Find and protect confidential information stored
on latops, workstations and servers.
E-mail
Encryption
Send confidential information securely via e-mail.
Disk
Encryption
Encryption for individual files or whole disk.
e-Discovery
Discover confidential information stored throughout
your network.
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