McAfee raises the stakes with Next Generation Data Loss prevention solution

href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/services/winshop/109123102.asp">McAfee
has announced plans for the
latest version of its data loss prevention solution that addresses
growing concerns about the security of regulated data and sensitive
information. McAfee Data Loss Prevention technology has planned to
include a common policy across all components, database crawling,
easier workflow through the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform and
greatly improved support for Microsoft Active Directory. Built upon a
unique data analytics technology, McAfee Data Loss Prevention
technology provides comprehensive data protection from the USB drive
to the firewall and beyond.

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Loss Prevention (DLP) market
is rapidly growing, fueled by the ever increasing government and
industry regulations and businesses emphasizing the importance of
protecting valuable corporate data such as product plans, financial
records and intellectual property. Until now, the DLP customer has
had to endure such challenges as large amounts of build-out time,
cost and effort. McAfee Data Loss Prevention technology changes the
game by delivering industry-leading data protection quickly and
efficiently. Organizations now have a way to meet their data security
needs without the huge expense of endless rounds of consulting and
trial and error tuning. “We found that because the system captures
all of the data we can do more with McAfee Data Loss Prevention than
other products on the market,” said Mark Moroses, Assistant CIO,
Continuum Health Partners, New York. “This is a unique capability
and we use it extensively. The system does not just present us with a
static view of user rule violations, it allows us to go back in the
past and look for patterns of behavior and abuse. This capability has
enhanced our ability to investigate incidents more thoroughly and in
less time. Our team can now rapidly access more information related
to an incident and they can review the past activities of the user
under investigation as well. The system gives us the peace of mind
that we are not missing anything. This is essential because
interrogating anything less than 100 percent of the information is
unacceptable,” added Moroses.

McAfee Data Loss Prevention
Technology Differentiators:

Ease of Deployment: Deployment
can occur within days as opposed to the typical six to nine months
period, allowing organizations to immediately test policies against
corporate data and achieve faster time to value. Advanced and
intuitive data analytics lets IT departments gain knowledge of
unknown data risk and understand how to quickly and effectively
protect corporate data.

Management: Users have an easy
workflow to manage data incidents from ePolicy Orchestrator platform,
a single console which supports case management, configuration,
reporting, monitoring while providing historic data-use insight, that
can be centralized or delegated to best suit specific user
requirements.

Integration: Tight integration
between McAfee Data Loss Prevention technology and the rest of the
McAfee data protection portfolio allows for automated responses to
threats in a coordinated way. Integration with leading rights
management technologies including Adobe and Oracle allows the
protection of sensitive data to extend beyond the boundaries of the
enterprise, increasing security and confidence and enabling the
flexible business to thrive.

Proactive:
Advanced data analytics
gives customers deep understanding about how their data is used
allowing them to better anticipate problems that would otherwise go
undiscovered.

According to Gartner, “Organizations
have always struggled to balance security and privacy needs with the
needs of the business. IT has long sought to enable the business, and
now risk management and security must follow suit. We need to learn
to embrace transparency, and accommodate the two-way flow of
information rather than fearing it. In addition to protecting
information, we also need to learn how to enable and guide the
appropriate use of information. This is essential if we're going to
take advantage of opportunities as we prepare for the return to
growth.”

The McAfee approach to DLP is unique
because it is delivered via pre-integrated, hardened appliances and a
host agent that is simply pushed via the ePolicy Orchestrator
platform, so data is protected in days, not months. That same ease of
use also applies to policy creation, delivering a wealth of knowledge
about how data is actually used-providing the ability to test
policies against actual data history before putting them into
production. Due to this, policies are right the first time without
guesswork, costly consulting or the business disruption caused by
false positives. That historic data knowledge can also be used to
accelerate incident investigations which can be completed in minutes
and allows for deep understanding about how organizations use data.
“Due to limitations inherent in legacy DLP solutions, organizations
have had to take a brute force approach to protecting data,” said
Gerhard Watzinger, Executive VP and GM-Data Protection Business
Unit, McAfee. “These approaches are like using a sledge hammer to
crack a nut and are usually used because of the high cost and
complexity with deployment of traditional DLP. With McAfee Data Loss
Prevention technology we can now enable the deployment of DLP that is
cost-effective and quick to value,” he concluded.