The most important asset of any company is its Intellectual Property (IP). Trade secrets, hardware designs, software source code, Rich Media Content, deployment schemes, pricing, business plans, agreements, etc. Unfortunately, it is also the most vulnerable property. An inattentive or malicious employee may expose or send out any secure document or Content (maliciously or unintentionally) and no one in the organization would know. These documents may reside in multiple locations on your network and need protection.
It’s not news that malware, viruses and other malicious applications are being used to transfer data across a broad variety of protocols. Cloud providers permit individuals to create powerful “private Cloud” computing environments.These environments permit individuals to copy data from their own home or work machine to their “virtual Cloud” machine with a simple “drag & drop”, “cut & paste”. Such actions are mostly done utilizing the HTTPS protocol but often some use Secure RDP. What happens when a disgruntled employee or malicious insider wants to send out your product development plans or source code?
The current, out of data Data Loss Prevention models, developed in large part to focus on compliance are not adequate enough to address Intellectual Property and Trade Secret protection issues.
Confidential data must be protected. But you can not simply lock this data away in some super secure database and throw away the keys! Employees must have access to this content to view, edit, collaborate, exchange and use it.