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Five data leak nightmares

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Five data leak nightmares

By Jeff Vance
When Home Depot lost a laptop containing personal information on 10,000 employees, it was just the latest in a string of high-profile data-leak incidents. The Veterans Administration, TJX, Monster.com, Fidelity National Information Services, Pfizer, AOL, Ameritrade - the list goes on and on. Read full story

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Data loss start-ups sell out The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager’s head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of start-ups, then even more quickly dwindled down to a few independent companies as larger vendors cherry-picked smaller ones to add data leakage to their own product portfolios.

Q&A: Data leak prevention pros and cons Anti-data leakage vendors make bold claims about how far their products can go to protect enterprises from unauthorized information sharing. This irks Nick Selby, head of enterprise security research at The 451 Group, who believes these tools are helpful with some tasks, but far from “the solution.”

Five data leak prevention companies to watch Not all the data-leak start-ups have been snapped up by the big guys. Here are five data-leak-prevention companies to keep an eye on.


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