Israeli data leakage protection company, Safend, has released a set of tips for how companies can keep their data safe during the Holiday season and long after. Tips include:

• Employ a Sound Auditing Process: Portable storage devices such as
  iPods, PDAs, smart phones and other mobile devices, have become pervasive
  in the workplace. Allowing your employees to use their iPods at work may
  be a good way to increase morale but it also poses a security threat.
  Knowing what devices are connecting to what endpoints will help
  administrators monitor and avoid these threats. Determining what kind –
  and how many — devices are accessing an organization’s network is the
  first step in developing an effective DLP strategy
• Access Control: To make sure that users cannot easily circumvent
  security policies, it is important to first make sure the policies in place
  are flexible enough that they don’t hinder productivity, but strong enough
  to prevent data leakage threats. This is accomplished through granular
  policies that allow administrators to block, allow or restrict access to
  data from everything from file type, device type and even specific device
  serial number.
• Encrypt Everything: Many enterprises feel that they have covered all
  their security bases with the implementation of security policies, employee
  training and endpoint protection technology and are reluctant to invest in
  another product or add another level of security. However, encryption is
  essential to ensure that unauthorized users cannot access data in the case
  of loss or theft.

Earlier this month Deloitte listed Safend as one Israel’s 50 fastest growing technology companies based on its revenues from the past 5 years. Safend’s products include: SafendProtector, SafendEncryptor and SafendReporter.

Another Israeli information security company, Promisec Ltd., was recently covered on Israel Innovation 2.0 for a video it posted on YouTube that also raises these points.

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