Emerging products: Data classification

摘要

Many organizations plan to implement data leakage protection (DLP), but many believe that DLP will solve all of their data exfiltra-tion problems. They're wrong. While some data leakage problems can be solved with DLP alone - it's pretty easy to spot Social Security numbers or credit card numbers -some of the most onerous require a lot more definition than DLP alone can give. It's a bit like expecting an IDS to identify all threats without defining what that threat consists of. Something needs to tell the DLP system what is acceptable data exfiltra-tion and what is unacceptable leakage. That's where data classification comes in.