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Overheard: Extrusion prevention? Worst tech term of the year



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Security, Technology
eileen_kennedy.jpg Everyone is familiar with intrusion prevention — the security technology. But now we have extrusion prevention. Data leak prevention or outbound content filtering would better describe it.

Eileen Kennedy, 2007: These buzzwords made our eyes and ears burn

At first I thought Eileen was kidding. There couldn’t possibly be an IT word called “extrusion prevention” could there? But then I Googled it and sure enough, there’s not only tons of vendors out there pushing products for extrusion prevention — there’s also tons of stuff for extrusion detection.

How did I miss this word? And what guy made it up?  It had to be a guy. Yuck.

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DannyLieberman88  |   Apr 12 2009   7:03PM GMT

Extrusion prevention is now commonly called DLP - data leakage prevention. Actually - extrusion prevention is more logical since it is the opposite of intrusion prevention. If intrusion prevention prevents bad guys from getting in, then extrusion prevention prevents good data from getting out. This actually makes it a much more logical and accurate description than DLP - as if data theft by trusted insiders or malicious outsiders was a plumbing problem

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