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At the epicenter of this is data loss prevention, a category of tools that inspect content and contextually analyze data in any state. While there are instances of staff actively leaking data, many data leaks occur due to employees losing sensitive data in public, providing open Internet access to data, or failing to restrict access in line with organizational policies - often genuine mistakes which result from a lack of awareness and training rather than any bad intentions.
Nearly 60% of organizations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months. The most common types of confidential and sensitive information lost or intentionally stolen include: customer information, intellectual property, and consumer information.
The global enterprise data loss prevention market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 21.03% to reach $6.265 billion by 2026, from $1.647 billion in 2019, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The increasing rate of data breaches along with other factors such as DLP as a service, DLP functionality extending into the cloud, and advanced threat protection against these data breaches are the major factors driving the enterprise data loss prevention market.
A third of employees admit lying to hide the fact that they accidentally deleted data, most doing so out of embarrassment or fear of punishment. A study of knowledge workers in 10 countries found that workplace cultures of blame and fear are causing businesses to lose critical, sensitive data that could have otherwise been saved if employees were comfortable enough to come forward.
Arcserve announced Arcserve N Series appliances, which deliver integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise infrastructures. The Arcserve N Series appliances, built on Arcserve UDP technology, are powered by Nutanix, a leader in private, hybrid, and multi-cloud computing, and secured by Sophos.
Digital Guardian announced the availability of its endpoint DLP visibility and security controls for Microsoft Teams. "With Digital Guardian's Endpoint DLP now integrated with Microsoft Teams, enterprise organizations can apply our proven enterprise DLP to their Teams environment, helping to prevent inadvertent or malicious data loss," said Digital Guardian Chief Executive Officer Mordecai Rosen.
Iland announced global support for Veeam Backup & Replication v11. Improved backup performance: V11 optimizations, supported by iland's performance-oriented storage for iland Secure Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, enables customers to improve their backup performance while also providing unparalleled scalability.
A February ransomware attack on fashion label Guess linked to Colonial Pipeline attackers DarkSide is still causing damage. It's Guess's breach notification filing with Maine's Attorney General's Office that said more than 1,300 people had their information compromised during the ransomware attack, including account numbers, debit- and credit-card numbers, and even the related security codes, access codes and personal identification numbers.
What's shocking is that despite the many advantages cloud and software-as-a-service applications provide organizations, they frequently fall short when it comes to averting data loss. Whether from human error, malicious actors, outages, or other methods, data loss poses a very real risk to the resilience of a business.
"Security teams today have to deal with a dizzying array of security tools from CASBs, PAMs, IGAs, CIEMs, SSPMs, and more-and they still lack insight and control over human and machine identities and permissions in cloud platforms and applications," said Art Poghosyan, CEO of Britive. Britive's Dynamic Permissioning Platform takes the complexity and time out of securing identities and permissions across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle Cloud.