Gartner DLP Advice and Research: Read Gartner's 2010 Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention FAQs Report

Proofpoint has made available some cool new Gartner research on data loss prevention in the form of a reprint of Gartner's 2010 Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention FAQs report.

This 8-page report describes Gartner's advice about the best approaches and benefits of deploying data loss prevention (DLP) solutions. It lists many of the typical questions asked by Gartner clients and provides answers that are applicable to the most common DLP scenarios.

This document has some especially interesting information about the differences between "enterprise" and "channel" DLP and when the channel DLP approach (for example, deploying data loss prevention and encryption features for email). This is a topic that I touched on in a previous blog post (see, "Gartner Analyst: Many Organizations Buying More DLP than They Need").

As the report notes, "Gartner has found that many DLP implementations only use a small subset of the total capabilities. Many times, what has been implemented is often the functionality subset that can be achieved with a C-DLP [channel DLP] solution from an incumbent provider at substantially less cost and complexity."

There are many more interesting insights in this report and it's well worth a read for anyone looking for information on the business cases for adopting DLP technology, deployment tips, evaluation criteria and much more. Follow the link below to read the full report:

Gartner Report: 2010 Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention FAQs

Related Research

Note that Proofpoint currently makes a number of other Gartner reports available, including:

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure E-mail Gateways, 2010: Learn how Gartner rates Proofpoint and other vendors in the email security space.
• Building an E-mail Retention Strategy: Learn best practices that organizations should follow when designing and implementing an email retention (archiving) strategy.