Data Loss Prevention
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5 Easy Steps for Implementing a Classification Policy
Doug Snow, September 27th, 2011
“We’ve had a classification policy for 30 years, but we’ve never been able to enforce it.” Does this quote sound familiar to you? It’s very common for organizations, especially in the commercial space, to have a classification policy but no way to implement it. Instead, organizations often move directly to the data protection stage, investing in large infrastructure projects such as DLP and IRM. But without classification as the foundation of their information protection strategy, it’s impossible for organizations to know what to protect. Read More...

Data Loss and Other Risks – Employees Sending Email to Their Home Computer for Business Purposes
Doug Snow, Sept 1, 2011
It can be very tempting for employees to use their personal email accounts to do corporate business. The typical scenario is that they didn’t quite get all their work done on a document in the office, so they send that document to their personal email account, where they can pick it up at home and continue working on it. Read More...

Oh no! – Email Auto-Complete – Helping Users Prevent Data Leakage to Unintended Email Recipients
Doug Snow, August 11, 2011
Most of us have inadvertently sent email to an unintended recipient due to the fateful “Reply All” button, or as a result of a hastily typed recipient name that gets “Auto-Completed” with the email address of somebody who has a similar name to the intended recipient. The result can be not only embarrassment, but actual data leakage that should be treated as a security incident or breach.

This blog discusses how common mistakes including inserting the wrong email address and sending emails that contain sensitive and restricted data to the wrong recipient(s),can impact an organization, and how the TITUS Aware for Microsof Outlook product can prevent these kinds of incidents. Read More...