Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Data Protection Basics

There is alot of press around the DLP meaning and concept. There are basic principles one must consider as part of the planning, strategy in putting a plan together.

1. Determine the critical data stores from a business perspective ( Rank your data's value)
2. Identify if the information in item 1 is data at rest or data in motion ( Classify the data type)
3. Determine if the data is on clients(pda's, laptops, servers), network ( communications streams), or hard prints. ( Discovery )
4. Align with financial or brand protection objectives
5. Put your requirements to paper
6. Evaluate your product space
7. Test in a controlled environment with test data!!
8. Deploy in production

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