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The current stress in the worldwide economy has manifested itself in many ways. As well as macro economic upheaval and the challenges it presents the public and private sector more practical and localised issues are appearing, including the increase risk to businesses of data loss.

Previous work at Bloor Research has underpinned the significance of the inside threat to data loss. Whilst this problem has often been attributed to the “incompetent and non-malicious” user releasing data by mistake the increasing numbers of disaffected white collar knowledge workers being made redundant is seeing an increase in “competent and malicious” data loss incidents.

Publicity surrounding significant data loss incidents over the past year have brought the issue to the fore. Senior politicians have become embroiled in public sector episodes as much as private sector company directors. Clearly data loss can be summarised in one word – risk, and it is up to security professionals to work with the business to mitigate this risk be it to shareholder value, reputation or personal embarrassment.

By reading this paper you will gain a good insight into the state of the data loss prevention market place in early 2009. A number of vendors are featured including:

Adobe, 3BView, McAfee, Sophos (Utimaco), FrontRange Solutions, PGP, Verdasys, RSA, Workshare, Clearswift, GTB Technologies, Tumbleweed Communications, Symantec, Fidelis Security Systems, Safend, Lumension Security, TrendMicro, Code Green Networks, CA (Orchestria), Cisco, Microsoft, Websense and Vericept

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