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Turmoil in international financial markets, coupled with multiple significant data leak events in both the public and private sectors has placed enormous pressure on businesses to more actively manage their risk.

This economic downturn will see significantly more data loss incidents than ever before due to the number of white collar knowledge workers – with access to IT systems – being made redundant or feeling aggrieved due to additional work pressures, bonus cuts or other stresses. Disgruntled employees are less likely to take care of corporate assets such as data and in many instances will actively seek to remove data that they consider to be useful such as customer lists and emails.

The need for Enterprise Data Protection is now more pressing than ever before.

Enterprise Data Protection is an umbrella term used to describe the coming together of data leak prevention technologies (often referred to as data loss prevention) with data encryption technologies. The reason for the coming together of two different security technologies is the natural synergy they share. By stopping data leaks in the first instance an organisation will achieve a high level of protection, but accepting that no organisation can ever prevent all data from leaking it makes sense to secure sensitive data further using encryption.

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

Adobe, CA (Orchestria), Websense , McAfee , Credant Technologies, CheckPoint (Pointsec), BeCrypt, PGP, Microsoft, RSA, Vericept, Cisco , Lumension Security, TrendMicro, GTB Technologies, Symantec , Sophos (Utimaco), Tumbleweed Communications, Secude, Voltage Security, Safend, DESLock, FrontRange Solutions, Vormetric, Fidelis Security Systems, Code Green Networks, 3BView and Dekart

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