Comments on: Overheard: Extrusion prevention? Worst tech term of the year http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-extrusion-prevention-worst-tech-term-of-the-year/ A Whatis.com blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: DannyLieberman88 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-extrusion-prevention-worst-tech-term-of-the-year/#comment-348 DannyLieberman88 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:03:03 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-extrusion-prevention-worst-tech-term-of-the-year/#comment-348 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 You can read more on my web site at [A href="http://www.software.co.il/data-security.html"] Danny Lieberman 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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