This week, I’m at a conference focused on helping CIOs help their organizations. The overwhelming issue is security. Email security, data leakage, and data loss/theft are all huge focuses — especially when the company is involved in the health care industry where it’s legally and reputationally essential that data be kept under control.
IT’s main defense strategies don’t address biggest risks
In most discussions, the same two solutions have come up to help prevent data loss: data loss prevention (DLP) tools and user training.
Both Exchange and Office 365 have DLP built in, managed via an easy-to-use wizard interface for setting up DLP policies that create transport rules to prevent email messages and attachments from leaving the organization, such as those with Social Security numbers or other sensitive, personal information. There are also plenty of third-party DLP tools available to enhance the native Microsoft capabilities.
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