This week, we’re announcing several significant updates to Data Loss Prevention to help you work more securely and compliantly with sensitive information. This includes more coverage for cloud apps, stronger endpoint monitoring, and improved data detection. Read on to learn more!
Get better visibility into cloud blind spots with DLP Cloud
This year, we’ve been seeing enterprise customers move their IT workloads to hybrid cloud infrastructures at a remarkable pace. “Forty-eight percent of large enterprises with off-premise workloads have handed off at least one workload to a hyperscale provider [Amazon, Google, Microsoft] in the last year, and that number is expected to rise to roughly 80% by 2018,” a report from McKinsey’s Silicon Valley group has found. The survey also determined that security and compliance continue to be the top barriers to cloud adoption, especially for large enterprises. Not too surprisingly, cost is the third most important consideration – not the main driver for adoption.
To help companies move to the cloud securely and compliantly, we’ve made huge investments in cloud DLP. In October 2016, we built and integrated our new DLP Cloud Service Connector, a cloud-based detection service powered by the same powerful technology as our on-premises detection software, with Symantec Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). With this fully integrated solution, you can extend your existing DLP policies to over 60 cloud apps including Office 365, Box, Dropbox, Goole Apps and Salesforce.
This month, we’re adding another integration between DLP Cloud Service Connector and our cloud-delivered web security service, Symantec Blue Coat Web Security Service, to monitor and block uploads of sensitive data to website and cloud apps.
And this is just the beginning. We’re have more cloud DLP capabilities in store for 2017!
Use improved content detection to find more types of sensitive data
Content-aware detection technology is at the core of enterprise DLP solutions. By layering different detection techniques ranging from fingerprinting to image recognition, you get the ability to find sensitive data stored in virtually any location and file format with minimal false positives. Since 2014, we’ve made continuous improvements to our detection engine so you can accurately and confidently identify sensitive PII and IP.
In DLP 14.6, we’ve rolled out several detection enhancements:
- Support for files encrypted with Microsoft Rights Management Service (RMS)
- Improved regex detection – faster (up to 40X) and more consistent across the endpoint agent and detection servers
- New and updated policy templates including for the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and U.S. HIPAA and HITECH
- New built-in Data Identifiers for China, France, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the U.S.
Keep up with new apps and platforms with the DLP Endpoint Agent
Employees face countless cybersecurity risks and threats ranging from basic security negligence to phishing email campaigns. With the DLPEndpoint Agent, you can keep them safe wherever they work by monitoring and protecting sensitive data in use across a wide range of user activities – both inside and outside the corporate firewall. In this release, we’ve added endpoint coverage for platforms and applications:
- Mac OS 10.12
- Microsoft Outlook 2016
- Microsoft Windows 10 Anniversary Update Enterprise
- Citrix 7.9 XenApp and XenDesktop
- Microsoft Edge via Agent Configuration
- More granular monitoring for applications via Application Monitoring
Learn more about what’s new in the latest version of Data Loss Prevention 14.6 here!