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Data loss prevention technologies can be costly and challenging to deploy--especially without proper planning upfront. Here are some things to think about before you spend money.
Backup solutions are important for disaster recovery efforts and equipment failures, but there's always the chance that you lose the changes made between the last backup and the point of failure. That's why DLP -- data loss prevention -- is gaining popularity, because it backs up data every time it changes. eWeek reports with some buying advice:
Data loss prevention sounds like a great idea. But poor planning can run up costs, making how organizations choose tools an important—and meticulous—process.
There are several things organizations should take into account when buying a DLP solution, starting with what type of data they want to protect, Securosis analyst Rich Mogull said. From there, organizations should consider everything from their incident handling process to where the data they want to protect is and how they want to protect it and what the infrastructure requirements are, he said.
Businesses often don't pay enough attention to the management requirements of the product and get burned because of it, noted Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn. There are several questions organizations should ask themselves, he said, such as, "Can I have a hierarchical policy framework, where one policy inherits the properties of another? Can I view events in different ways, and is information provided in a way that gives me a prioritized view and sense of my current risk exposure? … Can I control who sees what, and have a workflow around incidents that allows non-IT people—business managers, HR—to participate in the review process?"
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