Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets Protection is known to be the second main reason for businesses to purchase Data Loss Prevention.  These intangible assets, that include lists of customers, product designs, partnership and pricing arrangements, software source code and much more, are more important for many companies, than physical assets.  And those assets are just few mouse clicks away from leaving the company and getting to who knows whose hands! 

There are some companies, where the office door is being locked every day, so that nobody would come in and take tables, chairs and computer cases.  In the same time, they do not deploy data loss prevention solutions!  If your company is one of them, please do something about this, or at least bring this fact to the attention of the management.

More business cases for data loss prevention:

• Keep sensitive financial and personnel information secret
• Protect the database of the customers (with their names, phones and mailing addresses)
• Detect and prevent attempts of the dishonest contractors and employees to misappropriate company's trade secrets and intellectual property
• Prevent accidental release of the trade secrets
• Discover business processes, jeopardizing trade secrets