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The Critical Role of Data Loss Prevention in Governance, Risk and Compliance

The regulatory environment means that monitoring what information leaves your organization is as vital as protecting it from external attacks. Email is one of the most likely routes by which data may leak, maliciously or more often accidentally. A successful Data Leak Prevention system will address the issue of email...

The Growing Email Archiving Dilemma: 11 Considerations to Control Your Email Environment

According to industry analysts, email volume in organizations is growing by more than 30 percent annually, and the average user receives 7 MB of data per day via email. As a result of this growth, the handling of email has become a critical business, IT and regulatory issues - driving the need for email archiving...

IT Security by the Numbers: Calculating the Total Cost of Protection

Humorist Franklin P. Jones may have said it best: "When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet." These are wise words of warning for businesses counting on so-called "free" IT security software. This eBook helps you calculate the true cost of protecting your business infrastructure,...

Protect Your Organization from Cyberthreats

Hardly a day goes by without the discovery of a new cyberthreat somewhere in the world! But how do you keep up with new malware and evolving tricks by cybercriminals? Download this white paper to have access to a wealth of IT security intelligence, including: A concise overview of malware and tactics; Common...

Consumer Web Portals: Platforms at Significant Security Risk

From online shopping and banking to accessing personal health information, consumers are moving more of their personal lives to the Web. The explosion of digital identities and loss of customer information from data breaches is driving the need for effective consumer-facing authentication and access management tools....

Cybercrime and the Healthcare Industry

Collaborative care offers tremendous benefit for patients, but demands PHI accessibility across the complex healthcare environment and across multiple users and locations. Information sharing without the worry of unauthorized access or a data breach is critical to ensure patient trust and avoid regulatory fines. In a...

The Rewards and Risks of Enterprise Mobility

The productivity gains that are uniquely enabled by the cloud and mobile also present significant enterprise security challenges. Valuable and private data stored on mobile devices presents potential nightmare scenarios for departments and teams using the technology as well as CIOs, CSOs, and IT managers. This...

Enterprise Mobility Management: A Data Security Checklist

Secure file sharing, syncing and productivity solutions enable mobile workers to access the files they need from any source at any location easily and securely, while ensuring that all file access and file sharing complies with the organization's policies and any applicable industry regulations. These solutions impose...

Securing the Organization: Creating a Partnership Between HR and Information Security

Securing infrastructure is one of the most critical issues facing business and governments today worldwide, as it becomes conventional wisdom that the health of the collective cyber community is vital to the growth and stability of the global economy. As an outgrowth of that realization, it is becoming widely accepted...

Government Case Study: Tackling the Security Challenges of Cloud Computing

Three years ago, Montgomery County IT officials foresaw the coming fiscal crisis and began looking at how they could continue to deliver high- quality but cost-effective access to the enterprise infrastructure, applications and data required by the government's 34 departments and approximately 10,000 employees. The...

Top Reasons to Hire Certified Healthcare Security and Privacy Pros

As the evolving healthcare industry faces increasing challenges to keep personal health information protected - including growing volumes of electronic health records, new government regulations, and a more complex IT security landscape - there is a growing need to ensure knowledgeable and credentialed security and...

What's Yours is Mine - How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk

A new study by Symantec reveals that employees steal corporate data and do not believe it is wrong. The findings show that everyday, employees' attitudes and beliefs about intellectual property theft are at odds with the vast majority of company policies. The survey - conducted by Ponemon Institute, an independent...

Discover, Monitor and Protect Your Sensitive Information

Organizations can measurably reduce their risk of data loss by understanding where their data is going, how it's being used, and how to prevent its loss or theft. This allows you to take action on the biggest vulnerabilities and secure their most valuable information. Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) lets you...

Data Loss Prevention: Gartner Magic Quadrant Report

Symantec is excited to be a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for the eighth consecutive year. In the latest report, Gartner evaluates DLP solutions and provides valuable insights into DLP vendors and market trends. What you'll learn: Gartner's evaluation of content-aware DLP...

Generating Value From Big Data Analytics

Many enterprises are moving quickly to adopt "big data analytics" - specifically, the application of advances in analytics techniques to the rapidly-expanding pool of information that enterprises have at their disposal to enable better decision making. As this trend of adoption continues, information security, risk...