Boost Security With Outbound Content Management
Sensitive data slides out your company's door every day. New outbound content management tools can help you identify problem spots and bolster security.
But as any user of an antispam tool knows, no filter is perfect.
"A big mistake is to have too much faith in the tools. They can't replace trust and education," says consultant Kocher. And they won't stop a determined thief, he says. Even when appropriately deployed, these tools don't create an ironclad perimeter around the enterprise. For example, they can't detect information that flows through Skype voice-over-IP service or SSL connections, Kocher notes. They can also flood logs with false positives, making it hard for IT security staff to identify real problems.
That's why CIOs should look at outbound content management as a supplemental tool to limit accidental or unknowing communication of sensitive data, not as the primary defense, he says.
Galen Gruman is a regular contributor to CIO.
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