Prevensys Data Loss Prevention products enable manufacturing, technology and telecommunication businesses to protect their intellectual property, research and development artifacts, customer information, pricing and business plans.  Prevensys helps in achieving and demonstrating regulatory compliance and enforcing corporate policies.

What else can Prevensys Suite do for me?  It can help you to discover and prevent situations like these:

• A folder with the design of a new product was accidentally shared on a peer to peer network
• A laid off salesman has emailed the list of customers to his private email account
• An absentminded employee has forwarded a highly confidential document to the media (instead of a public one)

How can Prevensys Suite help in remediating broken business processes?  Example:

Situation: Employees, working from home, got a habit of copying confidential documents on USB drives and taking the the USB drives with them.  Of course, this is a security breach, because those drives can be easily lost or stolen.  The management is not aware of the situation or its dangers.

Prevensys in use, phase 1:  Prevensys Endpoint detects copying confidential data to the USB drives.  Each occurrence appears in the interactive report on the Console.  All details are presented to the management: names of the employees, computers, dates and times, copied files, devices and much more.  That allows investigation of what happened.  Let us assume that the Investigation has shown that the employees were good persons and did not intend to steal or misuse the data.  The management explains the employees that they were wrong and they should not take the confidential data outside of the office.

Prevensys in use, phase 2:  Prevensys Endpoint is configured to block copying confidential data to USB drives and other I/O devices.  Another option: Prevensys Endpoint is configured to block copying any data to or from USB drives on all computers, except for the computers of certain upper managers.

Prevensys in use, phase 3:  A certain trusted employee is permitted by management to work on the confidential data from home.  The company provides him with USB drives, and the IT department enters the serial numbers of these drives into Prevensys Endpoint.  Then, it configures Prevensys Endpoint to allow copying confidential data only to or from these USB drives and only by this employee.  This does not impact restrictions on the use of I/O devices by the rest of the company.  Periodically, the company uses Prevensys eDiscovery to make sure that the confidential data is deleted from the employee's home computer after use.

Result: The company has identified and remediated a broken business process.  Data security and compliance are achieved without loss of productivity.  The employees were educated and became more aware of the data loss prevention requirements.