Symantec Unveils DLP Suite With Enhanced Capabilities

Symantec Unveils DLP Suite With Enhanced Capabilities

CRN Network, July 09, 2010, 1100 hrs

Symantec has launched an updated version of Symantec Data Loss Prevention aimed at helping businesses prevent data leaks in their changing IT environments.



Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10.5 enables the use of social media while guarding against data loss, protects information in private clouds and helps organizations take ownership of unstructured data, such as documents, spreadsheets and e-mail.



“Information is today’s most critical business asset and traditional boundaries for it no longer exist,” said Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Symantec India. “Constantly evolving IT environments drive the need for new data protections. To protect information, Symantec must go where the data goes.”



Symantec has enhanced compatibility of its DLP suite with Web 2.0 sites—such as Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Meebo to stop the flow of sensitive data.



To combat threats emanating from cloud-based IT environments, Symantec has added new endpoint event coverage for workstations running virtualized applications and desktops, including Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop.



Symantec also recently introduced Symantec Data Insight that is now integrated into Symantec Data Loss Prevention. With Data Insight, organizations can discover where their most critical information lives, monitor its usage and protect it by automatically inferring data ownership to speed up the incident remediation and data clean-up process.