IS/IT MANAGEMENT

IS/IT Management

IS/IT Management

The Issued faced by IS/IT Managers When Managing IS/IT Projects

The prevention of data leakage is one of the most critical issues faced by IT managers, and CISCO certified personnel for how to develop strategy and implementation. Many of the organizations have found that there security to protect data dropping out of from where to connect organizations and individuals across the Internet, such as e-mail, file transfer it is possible to access sensitive information that should not be found. This may cause such exposure as loss of competitive savvy, loss of customer confidence or may cause them heavy fines.

The concept of loss of data means an unexpected loss of data or information that leads to the disappearance of data, and falls under the loss of data or data-theft.

This may be the result of loss due to:

1. Errors of man-made: whether an inadvertent error, such as deleting or modification to the data or unintentional such as when the employee separated, for example.

2. If the system files are corrupted, an error in the software, or from viruses.

3. Loss of organs that occurs from the theft of the device itself, or from natural disasters or fires.

The issue of leakage (loss) data includes everything starting from confidential information about the company's customers or even their products to be sent for example to a competitor of the company.

The data leakage one of the biggest concerns for organizations today as it causes irreparable damage and can have a tremendous impact on the budget of the Organization, and solutions that have been developed to assist in the protection of data leakage is the encryption, access control data, and also prevent data leakage and will be our conversation here to prevent data leakage.

Prevent data leakage:

What do we mean by: the systematic targeting of the organization and work to reduce the leakage of sensitive data outside the organization whatever the type of leakage?

The prevention of data leakage can have several elements and monitoring of data and content filtering, encryption, and identity management.

But before we go deeper into the concept of prevention of data leakage of sensitive data, it's pertinent to understand what we mean by sensitive data.

Sensitive data:

For companies, they include: regulatory compliance, intellectual property protection.

1. Regulatory Compliance:

Unfortunately, the road to full compliance with the regulatory pitfalls fouls simple, such as sending e-mail message (not encrypted contain credit card information, for example) or co-report (e.g. medical staff as data) with an unauthorized person, could constitute violations.

2. Intellectual property protection:

With today's highly competitive environment developments, the protection of intellectual property is a source of major concern for organizations staff to competitors with sensitive information. According to a 2006 report from the Office of Trade Representative of the United Kingdom, UK companies lose nearly € 250 billion per year who have been stealing trade secrets. For example, the company filed a lawsuit against Apple employee who published photographs of two new products on the Internet before getting out markets, which was reported to have caused the decline in the value ...