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Challenge : Data Leakage and Content Monitoring

It seems that everywhere we turn, public and private organizations are “leaking” consumer data. Recent news headlines describe spectacular losses of consumer and citizen data in the retail, banking, education, government, pharmaceutical, and other key industry sectors. These losses have cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars, significant embarrassment, and permanent reputational damage, not to mention the inconvenience and costs to your customers. Beyond what is known to the public, it also is likely that losses of sensitive and classified data never are disclosed in the press, but happen on an equally frequent basis.

Data leakage protection (DLP) and content management (CMF) vendors have been around for a while, but there are limitations to what they can do for you. According to Forrester, 85% of organizations using content filtering technologies do not implement the filtering component of the technology because of concerns with issues such as false positives, and fears that legitimate business traffic will be interrupted by overly complex or simplistic filters. Content review technologies embedded in these products have been hampered by the severely limited number of protocols parsed by these systems and by the flawed assumption that adversaries, whether internal or external, will use standard business communication methodologies such as Web, email and chat as the primary vehicle for leaking data out of your network. Bypassing these controls is very simple, even for user with modest technical skills.

The Need for Next Generation Monitoring
If you are concerned about protecting your organizational data and preventing data leakage, the only way you can be confident that data is not leaving your network is by capturing all network traffic and reconstructing the network sessions to the application layer for automated alerting and monitoring, and interactive analysis and review.

With 10 years of patented, core technology developed for the most challenging missions of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities, NetWitness NextGen provides a comprehensive distributed network monitoring framework designed to ensure that your customer’s personally identifiable information (PII), your intellectual property, and your other sensitive data are protected from accidental and intentional leakage.

NetWitness Decoder and Concentrator comprise the underpinnings of an enterprise infrastructure providing comprehensive situational awareness and visibility into content and context of all network activity. When combined with power of automated reporting and alerting in Netwitness Informer and the interactive network forensics and analytics in NetWitness Investigator, your organization can acquire the Total Network Knowledge needed to feel confident that you will know when there sensitive data leaking from your network.



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