Outsmart the Bad and Safeguard The Good: Data Loss Prevention Strategies | Fortinet Blog

Preventing the loss of critical or sensitive data has been an issue for as long as there has been proprietary information and intellectual property. But recent developments both in regulatory requirements and in the evolution of network infrastructures, including BYOD, virtualization, sophisticated applications, shadow IT, and cloud environments, make it imperative that organizations take a new look at how they control and protect critical data. Most of the time, data loss is unintentional, attributed to employees that unknowingly violate security policy or attempt to get around email based security solutions by using a personal Web-based e-mail, IM, or online file sharing application to transmit sensitive documents.



Outsmart the Bad and Safeguard The Good: Data Loss Prevention Strategies | Fortinet Blog