DLP technology challenges security costs

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"Vendors have blurred the functional boundaries between data leakage prevention, digital rights management and even endpoint device control, to the extent that IT should reset expectations for DLP deployments. The recent Burton Group report on DLP summarizes the market from a vendor offerings point of view, with heavy emphasis in vendor rankings given to companies with large market shares and marketing budgets. DLP can be a powerful weapon for security teams balancing threat protection with data protection and acceptable use policies, but only in well-defined business scenarios." ...