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Data Loss Prevention Solutions, for Your Business

Learn how to protect against data loss and preserve your company’s reputation with proven data loss prevention solutions with InterGuard. First off, what is Data Loss Prevention? Data loss prevention—also known as data leakage protection—helps ensure that customer information, personal employee information, and research and development (R&D) data remains safe and secure within your organization. Data...

Best Practices for Data Loss Prevention

Creating effective DLP policies is a constantly evolving process. Awareness Technologies has put together a check list to help your organization adhere to a stronger DLP policy: 1. Start by monitoring the organization 2. Then create “report only” policies to watch for efficacy—clean them up if necessary. Only then put very clean policies into enforcement mode while leaving “iffier” ones in...

The Triangulation of Time Wasted

       Time wasted at work is becoming a major issue for employers ranging from small-to-medium business all the way to the Fortune 500 companies. This delinquent behavior poses a challenge for employers especially at a time when meeting demand is absolutely critical for today’s success.      The average employee wastes between 30% and 40% of their day surfing the Internet for personal/non-work related...

Strangers on the Inside

Insiders are usually associated with full time or part time employees, however this is often a very limited view of the insider threat. Take the recent case of a Provo, Utah man named Zeldon Thomas Morris. Morris, 42, is a co-owner of Lee & Morris Enterprises and has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing more than $1 million from a local credit union. Morris was a contractor for Open...

Stolen Doesn’t Have to Mean Missing

Recently there was a interesting story in the news about how the US Army Reserve Command is notifying approximately 207,000 reservists that their personally identifiable information was on a laptop that was stolen.  This was one of 3 computers that were stolen from the Marrow, Georgia offices of Serco Inc.  What if Interguard (the Awareness Technologies security agent) was loaded on that system?  First they could...

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