Information Leak Prevention
Data Leakage
With increasing frequency and severity, businesses are becoming victims of high-profile leaks that started with a simple click of the SEND button or an innocuous Instant Messaging conversation. What are often unintentional leaks are compounded by the efforts of malicious activity from both insiders and outsiders whose goal is to use the information for illicit purposes.
For most businesses, losing customer lists isn't their only risk. Intellectual property, merger and acquisition plans, product launch dates, distribution strategies, and other confidential information pertinent to the day-to-day business must remain secure in order to sustain a competitive advantage. When there is a leak, the business faces not only daunting monetary costs, but also a loss to brand and reputation, regulatory penalties, and setbacks to business operations and continuity. To mitigate the risk of information leaks, organizations must have an ILP solution in place.
*Based on publicly reported leaks
Websense Content Protection Suite is the leading Information Leak Prevention (ILP) solution designed to protect a broad range of confidential data and intellectual property, and enforce and report on regulatory compliance.
Privacy and customer data
With consumer data protected by federal and industry regulations such as GLBA, HIPAA, and PCI, and more than 25 US states having passed privacy laws, if an organization leaks confidential customer information, it may translate into significant fines, severe damage to brand reputation, and incarceration. Whether these information leaks are accidental, intentional or malicious, companies are required to prevent these types of information from ever leaving their organization.
Websense Content Protection Suite preserves customer loyalty and protects brand reputation by securing private data, including:
- Social security numbers
- Account numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Employee records
- Medical records
- Non-public information
Websense Content Protection Suite utilizes patented PreciseID technology for powerful, content-aware analysis of data at rest, data in use, and data in motion for all communication channels, both external and internal to ensure confidential information is made available only to authorized users. With over 150 pre-built policy templates, security administrators can easily manage and report on regulatory and corporate governance issues surrounding data privacy.
PreciseID Technology
Advanced technology for superior Information Leak Protection:
The foundation of the Websense Content Protection Suite, Websense’s PreciseID technology provides accurate identification and classification of information (less than one percent false positives*) to deliver superior protection against information leaks. In identifying and classifying information, this patented technology leverages multiple detection methods to help organizations discover data, monitor data, and protect data, including:
- Fingerprinting technology
- Rules
- Lexicons
- Dictionaries
- Exact and partial matching
- Statistical analysis
Information Fingerprinting Technology
PreciseID’s fingerprinting technology generates an "information fingerprint" -- a mathematical representation of a group of characters, words, sentences or data fields of a document, message or database and precisely identifies the sensitive data and its metadata. This fingerprint is used by the Content Protection Suite to protect data at rest, data in use, and data in motion.
Secure and easy to use
Unlike simple hash, exact or even partial matching methods, PreciseID's advanced algorithms use granular data matching techniques. No initial modification or tagging of the original data is required. PreciseID technology is optimized for real-time applications and is secure against the reverse engineering of sensitive content and data manipulation.
Confidential data
A company's intellectual property distinguishes it from its competitors and provides a business advantage in a highly competitive environment. With the recent globalization of research and development, and off-shore manufacturing, it is very common to witness leaks of valuable intellectual property to competitors.
Protecting intellectual property from leaks is more complex than protecting other forms of information, since the variety of document formats ranges from source code formats, to CAD drawings, to Verilog code.
Websense Content Protection Suite safeguards the investment in research and development by protecting intellectual property information such as:
- Product designs
- Source code
- Research
- VHDL and Verilog code
- CAD drawings
For data privacy, confidential information and intellectual property, Wesbense delivers content-aware protection for more than 370 file formats, multiple data sources, and usage sc
Websense Content Protection Suite cost-effectively helps global organizations and multinational corporations around the world comply with corporate and regulatory requirements, providing easy-to-use policy templates and a sophisticated policy engine to address the most common and custom compliance requirements such as:
- US Federal regulations
- Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)v
- US State Regulations
- California's AB 1950 and SB1386/CC1798
- Florida's HB 481, Georgia's SB 230
- Illinois' HB 1633, New York's AB 4254
- Pennsylvania's SB 712
- Utah's SB 69
- Industry regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Check 21 Act
- Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- International government and banking regulations for the European Union, United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, Australia and Singapore