HDLP is the process of monitoring and blocking intentional and unintentional exfiltrating company’s data by employees or third parties through host systems. Every company holds on to sensitive and confidential data based on user role. If the data is logically or physically transferred from the organization, it might result in a substantial loss to the organization and eventually with-in a short period of time end up with a breach and online disclosure.
Some of the types of data categories that can be leaked by employees are:
Intellectual property data
Financial information
Employee details
Protected health information
Personally identifiable information
Customer transaction data
Cloud4C encourages enterprises to adopt the following approach to secure their data even when most of their workforce is working out of home.
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Identifications
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Risk Assessment
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DLP Strategy and
Information Security
The first step to data loss prevention is to understand the leakages. Security teams need to have a control over the IT infrastructure that leads to these vulnerabilities. Some of the most popular ways a host can be exploited are:
Cloud4C provides cutting edge HDLP solutions using the best products in the market. We bring our decades of understanding of providing enterprise security to help define, deploy and maintain these solutions.
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For many companies, compliance to the guidelines is critical. If you are any of those industries, you will appreciate the gravity of the situation. For companies that are affected by various compliance guidelines, here is what you should know.
The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in European Union and European Economic Area. This act came into existence after calls for citizens’ privacy and is meant to protect the privacy of all the citizens of European Union. Every company that handles the data of the user/customer must adhere to the rules of GDPR. This includes companies that are located outside Europe but serve the citizens of European Union.
Companies that deal with such sensitive data must extend their security to providing Host DLP to adhere to GDPR. Companies need to deal with a whole host of vulnerabilities to successfully deploy the DLP in this case. Unlike HIPAA, GDPR covers all and every data of the citizen. This means every company that caters to the EU region in every industry falls into this gamut. These companies must deploy DLP to adhere to the GDPR compliance or risk paying hefty fines or even lawsuits.
Compliance to Health Care Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) helps protect the privacy and security of the patient information. This act is designed to protect patient information like social security number, medical ID numbers, drivers’ license numbers, home addresses phone numbers and other related information. This covers a whole array of companies that handle this data including IT companies, accounting firms, law firms, insurance firms and of course, hospitals.
Host DLP is vital for companies that handle this data. Violation of this compliance might lead to companies paying hefty fines. It is important that companies restrict the access of this information to employees who are working from home or outside the company’s purview. There are a comprehensive set of features that are needed to handle the host DLP requirements in this scenario.
While PCI has been around for quite some time now, most companies that comply with PCI still report data leaks. One primary reason for this is lack of comprehensive security to all the endpoints of the network.
Companies that adhere to PCI must make sure their employees do not misuse the customer's payment data. While companies enforce strong on-premise security, many companies simply do not enforce enough DLP solutions for their end employees. With the increase in card payments across the world, this has evolved into a global challenge.
Cloud4C is a compliance first company. Everything we do on a daily basis revolves around meeting security and compliance standards. We employ full-time Quality Management & Security Teams whose main responsibility is to ensure that our facilities are compliant with the many standards, certifications, and accreditations we adhere to and to ensure all our customer deployments are managed appropriately. Many compliance standards require different security and operational control sets, so we work with each of our clients to understand what’s needed to meet theirs specifically. Cloud4C’s managed compliance service includes continuous auditing, asset discovery and monitoring, reporting, and audit support.
By deploying Cloud4C HDLP solution, enterprises can rest assured that they instantly become compliant to all the global, regional and industry specific standards.
With work from home increasingly becoming the new norm, companies are concerned about employee productivity more than ever before. With work from home being the only option in certain scenarios, companies must brace for the impact of this on the employee productivity.
Cloud4C helps enterprises add a few tracking features to the HDLP solution and extend the functionality to achieve just that. With these features they can: