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To enhance productivity, organizations need to allow employees and partners access to data; and more employees are working remotely, thus requiring access from outside the network. But the potential impact of data loss is a very real concern, be it accidental or malicious. And today, removable devices (such as USB flash drives) and media (such as CDs/DVDs) are the most common data leakage routes -- no file copy limits, no encryption, no audit trails and no central management.
The information contained in customer data, corporate data and intellectual property is worth billions to some. And the costs for recovery of data and lost business are rapidly rising as well, with the average yearly cost now estimated to be $6.6 million2.
2 Ponemon Institute, 2008 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach, February 2009
