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Websense Data Security Overview

Powerful Data Loss Prevention

Data loss prevention from Websense can help you discover, monitor, and protect your data. Websense can give you visibility into what data is confidential, where it is stored, who is using it and for what purpose, and can help secure all your essential information.

CIOs spend millions of dollars each year investing in business systems and processes to make information (often confidential) available to authorized employees and partners. And while these investments enable business to grow, they also pose significant risks to data security and, by association, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and brand and reputation.

Consider the impact if your most confidential data was inadvertently leaked over email, erroneously posted to a public Web site, or left unsecured on a laptop or USB drive. If it were customer information, would it violate PCI or HIPAA regulations? If it were intellectual property that was lost, what would be the long-term financial impact to your profit margin? And if it were happening right now, how would you know?

Read more about the regulatory issues surrounding data loss prevention:

• Privacy and Customer Data
• Regulatory Compliance and Data Security

Privacy and Customer Data

Prevent Breaches and Ensure Privacy

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and multiple federal statutes such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), exist to protect customer data. More than 38 states have enacted local legislation to require companies to issue data security breach notifications to all individuals whose data may have been compromised in the event of a leak of personally identifiable information. But even with all these controls in place, more than 158 million records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in data security breaches since the beginning of 2005 according to the Privacy Clearinghouse.

The results of such breaches can be far-reaching. Organizations must not only bear the expense of fines and dedicated customer support operations, but also any resulting loss of shareholder and customer confidence, impact on reputation, brand, and stock market valuation, and even potential criminal penalties. Dealing with a data security breach is disruptive to business and can give competitors an advantage. It does not matter whether breaches are accidental or deliberate; what matters is that the organization is perceived to have failed in its duty to care for personal and confidential information.

Websense Data Security Suite preserves customer confidence and helps protect the company's competitive position by securing confidential data, including: social security numbers, account numbers, credit card numbers, employee records, medical records, claims submissions, legal documents and any other information deemed non-public.

Websense Data Security Suite is information-centric, protecting designated confidential data in any form and traveling through any communication channel to any destination, to ensure that data is available only to authorized users. Using Deep Content Control, Websense Data Security Suite provides automated policy enforcement for users and data, as well as destination control that integrates with existing business processes and helps ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate governance requirements.

Regulatory Compliance

Prevent Data Loss and Ensure Compliance

Legislation is frequently enacted or expanded to guarantee protections of personally identifiable information that is stored and handled in digital form. Organizations must not only bear the expense of fines and damage-limiting operations if they suffer from data loss through poor security, but they also risk the resulting loss of shareholder and customer confidence. This can have a powerful impact on reputation, brand, and stock market valuation, even the potential for criminal sanctions against company executives. It doesn't matter whether breaches are accidental or deliberate; what matters is that the organization is seen to have failed in its responsibility to care for personal and confidential information.

Websense Data Security Suite helps organizations comply with all sorts of data privacy requirements by protecting against data loss through poor security. It provides easy-to-use policy templates and a sophisticated policy engine with highly granular controls to help ensure compliance with the most widely enforced compliance requirements, including:

US Federal Regulations

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

US State Regulations

• California's AB 1950 and SB1386/CC1798
• Florida's HB 481, Georgia's SB 230
• Illinois' HB 1633, New York's AB 4254
• Pennsylvania's SB 712
• Utah's SB 69

International Regulations

• The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Check 21 Act
• Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
• International government and banking regulations for the European Union, United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, Australia and Singapore