Data Loss Prevention

1. Data Loss Prevention Steve Scott Manager, Information Security Operations

2. Data Loss Prevention • Well, more like Data Loss Identification • We watch for data leaving inappropriately • Based on “patterns” or • Based on our data! • 2.7 million records from the data warehouse • Updated weekly • Only looking for “ugly” stuff initially

3. Inappropriate?? • “Clear Text” protocols, like email, pass your data in the clear over the Internet and others along the path can read the data. • Other protocols that are bad: http instead of https, chat, FTP, telnet and others…

6. Why should we care? • At work, HIPAA • HIPAA violation due to willful neglect but violation is corrected within the required time period $10,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $250,000 for repeat violations $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million • At home, identity theft

7. DLP Interface

8. Incidents so far • 65 in 60 days • 62 email related • 11 sourced from external addresses • 40 requests for corrective action plans • One vendor running a website improperly

9. Questions?