Symantec Data Loss Prevention delivers a unified solution to discover, monitor, and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. Symantec offers comprehensive coverage of confidential data across endpoint, network and storage systems. By measurably reducing risk, you have renewed confidence to demonstrate compliance while protecting customers, brand, and intellectual property.

Today, just about anybody can share, access, and disseminate information in unlimited volume. Organizations have come to depend on it—in fact, it is enormously empowering. At the same time, the workforce has become increasingly mobile and the ubiquity of high-speed Internet access, smart mobile devices, and portable storage means that “the office” can be anywhere. As a consequence, it has become more difficult than ever for organizations to prevent the loss of sensitive data. Yesterday’s security approaches were aimed at securing the network. It’s time to shift the focus to securing the data itself. And one of the best ways to do that is with Symantec™ Data Loss Prevention

Discover.

Find confidential data wherever it is stored, create an inventory of sensitive data, and automatically manage data cleanup.

As the volume of data continues to grow within an organization, data security teams may have little or no visibility into where confidential data is stored or who has access to that data. Symantec Data Loss Prevention discovers confidential data wherever it is stored throughout an organization. With this solution, companies can address key challenges around the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard, data inventory, and data classifications in order to demonstrate regulatory compliance, reduce risk, and safeguard their brand and reputation.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Network Discover quickly discovers exposed confidential data wherever it is stored with the broadest coverage of enterprise data repositories, including file servers, databases, document and records management, email repositories, and Web content and applications.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Discover scans for confidential data stored on the endpoint, including laptops, desktops, and workstations at remote offices, in order to inventory, secure, or relocate that data.


Monitor.

Understand how confidential data is being used—whether the user is on or off the corporate network—to gain enterprise visibility.

As organizations rely on high-speed networks and mobile computing to more easily share and access information, data security teams may have little or no visibility into what confidential data is leaving the organization and how employees are using it on and off the corporate network. With Symantec Data Loss Prevention, organizations can monitor how confidential data is being used at the endpoint and where it is being sent over the network. Symantec helps ensure that employees can work productively from the office or at home, and that organizations are aligned with corporate data security policies.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Network Monitor inspects all network communications, such as email, instant messages (IM), Web, FTP, P2P, and generic TCP, for confidential data in violation of data security policies.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Prevent monitors confidential data being downloaded to local drives; copied to USB or other removable media devices; burned to CD/DVDs; transferred over email, instant message, or FTP; copied; and printed or faxed electronically.


Protect & Prevent.

Automatically enforce security policies to proactively secure data and prevent confidential data from leaving the organization.

It has become more difficult than ever for organizations to prevent the loss of sensitive data. Yesterday’s security approaches were aimed at securing the network. Today’s approach is to focus on securing the data itself. With Symantec Data Loss Prevention, organizations gain visibility into policy violations to proactively secure data with automatic quarantine, relocation, and support for policy-based encryption. Symantec Data Loss Prevention enables active blocking at both the network and endpoint to prevent confidential data from leaving the organization inappropriately. Symantec helps ensure the highest level of risk reduction to automatically enforce compliance with data security policies and enable organizations to change employee behaviour.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Network Protect automatically protects stored confidential data by quarantining, copying, or removing it from its stored location.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Network Prevent proactively stops network communications from being sent in violation of data security policies by conditionally removing or routing messages that contain confidential data to an encryption gateway for secure delivery.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Prevent blocks confidential files from being downloaded to local drives, copied to USB or other removable media devices, transferred over the network, burned to CD/DVDs, copied to a drive, or printed or faxed electronically.


Manage.

Define unified policy across the enterprise, remediate and report on incidents, and detect content accurately, all within one unified platform.

Organizations are increasingly facing the challenge of enforcing IT security policies. With rapidly growing workforces in geographically diverse locations and employees often working outside the corporate networks, rogue business processes that don’t comply with internal regulations can easily manifest. The Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce Platform enables organizations to manage and apply unified data security policies across the enterprise. In one comprehensive management console, the Enforce Platform enables organizations to define policies once and enforce them everywhere. Designed for the business user, the Enforce Platform is easy to use for remediation and reporting on policy violations, which allows the lowest number of staff resources needed to manage the solution. Its advanced detection technology helps ensure the highest level of accuracy by analyzing both content and context on an enterprise scale. This helps organizations to prevent confidential data loss and maintain a low total cost of ownership.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce Platform effectively manages all universal Data Loss Prevention policies in a centralized platform for detection, incident remediation workflow and automation, reporting, system management, and security.