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Symantec, a leading cybersecurity
company, has announced new
enhancements to its data loss prevention
(DLP) technology to protect information
in Office 365. With Symantec DLP,
data is protected whether at rest or in
transit, on-premises or in the cloud and
everywhere it flows through a single
management console.
Monitoring and protecting data in the
cloud generation is a complex task
and GDPR and other similar privacy
regulations have further raised the stakes
on data security, privacy and compliance.
As such, companies must work to ensure
that sensitive data such as PII, intellectual
property or source code is protected no
matter where it is shared.
In the cloud generation, this is more
difficult than ever, as enterprises are
rapidly adopting SaaS applications,
including Office 365, that require data to
continuously move between endpoints,
cloud and third parties such as partners,
vendors or contractors.
Symantec provides advanced
functionality for visibility, protection and
control of sensitive data no matter where
it lives or travels. Users can now safely
share sensitive data through Office 365
with employees, partners or contractors.
As an integral element of Symantec’s
Integrated Cyber Defense Platform,
Symantec’s DLP technology leverages
a powerful combination of detection
technologies backed by advanced
Machine Learning to classify sensitive
personal information, including sensitive
image recognition (SIR) with optical
character recognition (OCR).
When data is shared with third parties,
identity-based encryption and digital
rights are automatically enabled to
classify and persistently protect and
track the data.
Adam Tamburini, International SVP
at e-shelter
www.intelligentciso.com
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Protected organisations will have
visibility of where their data is shared
and who is accessing it, with the
ability to revoke access if needed.
This information centric security (ICS)
approach focuses protection around
data and reinforces GDPR controls and
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other compliance best practices. New
capabilities in Symantec DLP 15.1:
• Automatic protection for sensitive
emails and attachments in Office
365 and Gmail with identity-based
encryption and digital rights
management. This is delivered
via integration of Symantec DLP
and Symantec Information Centric
Encryption (ICE) to protect and track
sensitive data shared with third parties
• Ability to read classification
tags that were manually applied
to files and emails and automatically
protect based on the assigned level
of sensitivity
• Easier monitoring for GDPR
compliance-related data risk with
the use of new DLP in-built policy
templates and powerful risk-based
reporting capabilities provided
via Symantec Information Centric
Analytics (ICA)
“As enterprises migrate to Office 365 and
other SaaS applications, they risk a huge
Protected
organisations will
have visibility of
where their data is
shared and who is
accessing it, with
the ability to revoke
access if needed.
potential of data loss, which is made even
more complex in the face of increasing
data regulations such as GDPR,” said
Nico Popp, Senior Vice President of
Information Protection, Symantec.
“Information protection is a critical
part of an organisation’s integrated
cyberdefence strategy in this cloud
generation environment. By taking a
holistic approach, we can better protect
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