Friday, August 6, 2010

Article Summary Week 2 Work

Article: Burton Group names Symantic, RSA, Websense as best data loss prevention vendors. By Robert Westerveit, Posted 19th October 2009.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/36348-Burton-Group-names-Symantec-RSA-Websense-as-best-data-loss-prevention-vendors?topic_id=176

Overall this article relates to companies being fearful of being the next victim of an information security breach. Company's are beginning to use Data Leakage Prevention(DLP) technology to track data.
Data Laekage Prevention vendors are creating new and important relationships with other parties to better integrate DLP software it can track where the data is going, it can block potential hackers or even place alarms on the data.
The article also discusses vendors of Data Leakage Prevention software and how they were rated for their services as a vendor. It discusses the issues relating to DLP technologies, making it an ongoing process that needs to be continued for the DLP software to be fully effective within the business.
On a whole this article discusses the first topic of the subject an Introduction to Information Security as it discusses Data Leakage Prevention software. This relates to Information Security as data is a form information which needs to be secured within businesses.

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