Of course this is the case. Data leakage prevention tools are Leak, not theft, prevention. The problem from a compliance standpoint, is there is no dfference between an inadvertant and an intentional disclosure. You can stop the stupid, but you cannot stop the evil. The best think you can do to address the "evil" (by evil I mean those who are intent and determined to do something wrong)is have good data forensics, that way when it becomes apparent that data has been leaked (say IP to a competitor) is have tools in place to determine who, what, where and when, that way you can have evidence take action, be it a personnel action, or a leagal one, or both.
RE: Data-leakage prevention tools catch errors, not theft
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 12:09pm
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