ByEric Ogren 26 May 2009 | SearchSecurity.com

While it is important to have technology that can automatically block violations of acceptable use policies, it is more important to have end users that know their responsibilities and application developers that integrate data security. That’s where audit, discovery and reporting features come into play when evaluating data protection products such as data leakage prevention, endpoint device control and rights management systems.

The market trend is to consolidate management of DLP, RMS and device control features, with data security elements becoming embedded in application environments. Data leakage prevention recognizes sensitive data during content inspection on a network appliance and endpoint software. Rights management attempts to restrict end-user actions such as printing and copy/paste where the data could step outside of IT control and device control aims to prevent confidential data from walking out the door on removable media including USB devices.

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