LATEST INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION PROTECTION IN THE WEB
AND CLOUD ERA
C
ompanies used to be able to lock their
doors and shred their documents to
keep their information from getting
into the wrong hands. Then the digital
age made information easily accessible
and transferrable. To prevent it from
being intercepted, stolen or accessed by
unauthorised users, security technologies
sprouted up to protect it as it flowed through
the company’s local area networks (LANs),
between their remote sites and in and out of
their discrete data centres.
Over the past few years we have seen
the digital world evolve, yet the security
technologies designed to protect the data
continue to operate as though there are
defined digital boundaries to the business
world. Users are storing and accessing
corporate data from their smartphones,
tablets, cloud apps, home offices and
airport kiosks.
They are going to their local coffee shop
and connecting to public Wi-Fi to access
their apps and accounts in the cloud. All
the while, traditional security controls,
which exist in a company’s data centre,
have no visibility into this activity; they
are unable to monitor, control or protect
the data the moment it’s outside the
company’s direct control.
A modern approach is needed to this
modern data protection problem, along with
a solution that can implement consistent
controls and security, regardless of how data
is accessed and where it is stored. This white
paper explores the challenges associated
with protecting data in today’s enterprise
and starts to detail how a modern data
loss prevention (DLP) solution can provide
continuous monitoring and protection of
sensitive data on mobile devices, on-
premises and in the cloud. n
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