White Papers on Data Loss Prevention
Protecting Sensitive Information in an Increasingly Leaky World
Information technology (IT) security is indispensable to an organization’s ability to conduct business and achieve its objectives. Security requirements affect almost every business process and system, and successful security measures help protect a business’ brand value, stakeholder confidence, risk management strategies, and compliance status. Requirements vary among industries, geographies, and regions, but the need to protect privacy, retain important data, and facilitate e-discovery are common to all. This paper provides an overview of the regulatory landscape and identifies steps to take for defining a flexible compliance strategy.
Addressing Compliance Requirements for Privacy, Data Retention, and e-Discovery
Protecting individual and financial data, retaining data, and meeting e-discovery requirements are common compliance requirements across geographies and industries. Finding accurate, usable, and cost-effective solutions for meeting these requirements can make the difference between achieving compliance goals or leaving the organization vulnerable through unsecured use of sensitive data. Trend Micro Data Protection solutions for endpoint data leak protection, email encryption, and email archiving help organizations meet their compliance requirements – easily and cost-effectively.
Osterman Research: Why Your Organization Needs to Implement DLP
Data breaches can carry very serious consequences, as the Hannaford Brothers chain of supermarkets learned firsthand when the company lost more than four million debit and credit card numbers to hackers. The bottom line is that organizations must implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to protect themselves against the growing array of threats they face from inadvertent and malicious data leaks from email, instant messaging and other systems.
Data Protection Solutions at Midsize Organizations
In January of 2008, a random sample of online technical newsletter subscribers at midsize companies (100-5,000 employees) received an email invitation to participate in a survey about data protection solutions use at their organizations. The goal of the survey was to identify sources of and/or reasons for information security breaches, and to better understand how businesses are planning to protect themselves against data leaks. The following report presents top line results of the study.
Network and Endpoint Data Leak Prevention: Comprehensive Protection Using a Best-of-Breed Approach
The greatest threat to enterprise data security comes from inside threats. Securing the enterprise requires an understanding of the data leak points, environment, people, and processes for managing sensitive information. This white paper explains how network-based and endpoint-based solutions can work together to provide the broadest protection available while ensuring scalability and manageability, and that employee productivity is not impacted.
Trend Micro™ LeakProof™: Leveraging Data Leak Prevention Technology to Secure Corporate Assets
Companies rely on knowledge assets, such as product formulas and customer databases. VPNs and network monitors can protect proprietary information from outsiders; but, they won’t do much to prevent access by internal users. With the popularity of wireless networks, USB drives and other portable devices, it’s all too easy for insiders to leak key data. This white paper explains how Trend Micro™ LeakProof ™ 3.0 protects sensitive data at rest, in use, and in motion.
When Encryption Isn't Enough
Encryption will help to protect data against unauthorized access by outsiders from lost or stolen devices such as laptops, thumb drives, and other removable media. But it does not protect against the insider threat-employees and contractors with authorized access to data who mistakenly or maliciously leak your most valuable assets.

