The WRONG Way to Stop USB Data Leakage
Posted by Kim Ann King on Mon, Apr 23, 2007
It doesn’t take much to get publicity these days. Lose one spreadsheet
containing customer data, and your company’s name is almost guaranteed
to be plastered all over the front page news.
Data leakage
is a serious issue that is expected to result in tens of millions of
people receiving "data loss" notification letters this year. And
compliance
regulations, including SarBox, HIPAA, and Payment Card Industry (PCI),
are bearing down on companies to prevent the loss of this information.
But
what if you could audit every file copied to and from a portable
storage device such as a USB key? Better yet, what if you could prevent
the copying of confidential information to unauthorized devices?
A recent
webinar
hosted by Bit9, entitled “The WRONG Way to Stop USB Data Leakage,”
detailed key issues on how to protect sensitive and proprietary data
through strong
device and application control policies.