Data Loss Prevention: Strategies You Can Use Today 
Nick Edwards, Group Product Manager
IronPort (now part of Cisco)
Presentation Abstract:
Data loss prevention (DLP) is a serious issue for companies, as the number of incidents (and the cost to those experiencing them) continues to increase. Whether it’s a malicious attempt, or an inadvertent mistake, data loss can diminish a company’s brand, reduce shareholder value, and damage the company’s goodwill and reputation.
Whether it’s email, instant messaging, webmail, a form on a website, or file transfer, electronic communications exiting the company still go largely uncontrolled and unmonitored on their way to their destinations – with the ever-present potential for confidential information to fall into the wrong hands. Should sensitive information beexposed, it can wreak havoc on the organization’s bottom line through fines, bad publicity, loss of strategic customers, loss of competitive intelligence and legal action. All avenues of electronic communication need to be policed to prevent intellectual property, financial information, patient information, personal credit card data, and a variety of sensitive information (depending on the business and the industry) from falling into the wrong hands.
Across all key protocols, a high-performance, intelligent data loss prevention (DLP) solution is a must-have for today’s organizations.
Bio:
Nick Edwards is responsible for product management of IronPort's email security appliance lines. Before joining IronPort, he was a product manager for Redback Networks, responsible for the company's Subscriber Management System. Edwards began his career in data communications in the U.S. Navy, and served as a submarine officer for five years. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.
