Reputation and brand are crucial to an organization’s success. A single data breach can be crippling to an organization’s image. Brand loss alone is 49% of the cost of a data breach. Therefore, protection of sensitive data should be a priority for all organizations. WikiLeaks has caused anxiety for leaders of many organizations, and many are left wondering if their organization is protected. Just the thought of someone having access to your organization’s or employees’ confidential information is troubling.
Those leaders who have implemented DLP tools are free from the WikiLeaks anxiety. DLP tools enable us not only to protect standard data types such as PCI or PII data, but fingerprinting techniques enable organizations to protect all data deemed sensitive. This technique allows for detecting and protecting sensitive data despite alteration, reformatting, or other modification. Fingerprints enable the protection of whole or partial documents and derivatives of the protected information. Some examples of data organizations fingerprint are executive summaries of documents or specific customer records.
How does fingerprinting work?
“Fingerprinting technology examines the content of documents or raw data and extracts a set of mathematical descriptors or "information fingerprints." These fingerprints are compact and describe the underlying content. By assigning unique identities to each information asset, fingerprinting technology can track information in motion with great precision.”
- Websense
Start thinking about how a DLP solution might ease some of the concern in your organization.
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