Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

Vontu Endpoint Data Loss Prevention from Symantec discovers confidential data stored on laptops and desktops and prioritizes high risk endpoints for additional protection, and prevents confidential data from being copied to USB devices, burned to CD/DVDs, and downloaded to local drives.


Data at the Endpoint Diagram
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Do you know...

  • Which laptops and desktops contain intellectual property?
  • Who is copying confidential data to USB drives or iPods?
  • How to prevent confidential data from leaving endpoints?

Vontu Endpoint Data Loss Prevention gives organizations insight into what confidential data is stored on laptops and desktops, and allows monitors and prevents data usage that violates policy on the endpoints.

Vontu Endpoint Discover -
Automatically discover data stored on endpoints.
Vontu Endpoint Prevent -
Monitor and prevent data usage that violates policy on endpoints.

"Which devices are most likely to contain sensitive data? PDAs (60%), laptops (59%), USB memory sticks (53%) and desktops (36%)."

- Confidential Data at Risk Survey
Ponemon Institute

With Vontu Endpoint Data Loss Prevention you can...

  • Scan laptops for PII data such as social security numbers and prioritize full disk encryption efforts
  • Discover source code inappropriately stored on outsourced engineers' workstations
  • Find product design documents on contractors' laptops
  • Use automated notifications to educate employees on need to protect confidential data.
  • Prevent engineers from copying a source-code repository to USB drives
  • Prevent engineers at an outsourcer from burning a DVD with 100's of CAD drawings
  • Use automated on-screen notifications to educate employees on the need to protect confidential data.

Evaluating solutions for Endpoint Data Loss Prevention?

Only Vontu Data Loss Prevention solutions meet the key requirements for protecting data on endpoints of the most demanding midsize and large organizations -- in all industries and sectors:

  • Agent-based discovery of confidential data stored on endpoints
  • Minimal network impact with local detection and file content extraction, incremental scanning, and network throttling
  • Continuous discovery, monitoring, and prevention on or off the corporate network
  • Same physical agent for both stored data discovery and protection as well as data usage monitoring and prevention
  • Scalable to tens of thousands of users
  • Quick and easy to deploy
  • Standards-based approach to Microsoft Windows integration to ensure stability, interoperability, & security
  • Built-in industry best practice templates for policy, incident response, roles, and reporting
  • Deep content inspection for highest accuracy
  • Centralized platform for detection, remediation workflow, reporting and system management and security
  • Proven solution with multiple FORTUNE 500 referenceable customers in production.

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