Test Center Tracker: Cover your data assests

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Jun 26, 20071 min

Fresh from the Test Center: Hidden throughout every nook and cranny of your corporate LAN is an assortment of sensitive information, like private data and intellectual property. Surely you want to protect it, but keeping track of it all is no easy task. InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck got a chance to review a solution to the problem from Tablus, called Content Sentinel. Using grid processing, the system

Fresh from the Test Center: Hidden throughout every nook and cranny of your corporate LAN is an assortment of sensitive information, like private data and intellectual property. Surely you want to protect it, but keeping track of it all is no easy task. InfoWorld Contributing Editor Mike Heck got a chance to review a solution to the problem from Tablus, called Content Sentinel. Using grid processing, the system “helps you gauge gaps in your data security by identifying content at risk on laptops, desktops, and servers. You can then take measures to protect this information before it moves or is misused.”

The cost of data loss: Continuing with this week’s theme off data protection, check out a rather harrowing data-recory tale in the most recent edition of Off the Record. Seems an unfortunate company practically found its backup data being held hostage by a rather incompetent and inflexible third party. Those of you attending our Enterprise Data Protection Executive Forum will hopefully learn some better techniques.