Companies are struggling to identify and protect sensitive information. Confidential customer data, intellectual properties, trade secrets and legal documents are being shared against authorization, costing organizations millions in restitution. Because this sensitive information is so easily accessible, in today's open environments, the need for data security has amplified. Data, in all forms, is at risk: Data at rest - sitting on the network or shared drives, data in motion - data being sent via email, Instant Message, web postings, etc. and data in use - data saved on removable media devices, such as: USB drives, CD's, floppy disks, iPod's , cameras, etc.

Recently, the severity of data protection and insider threats has significantly increased. Information that is being stored on the network and various removable media devices is getting into the hands of outsiders, thus, violating state and federal enforced laws and regulations designed to protect such data: Sarbanes Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA , CA SB1386, CA AB1950, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, The Patriot Act, FISMA, FERC/NERC, and others.

GTB Technologies Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution enables organizations to distinguish confidential data and enforce data security policies. Early DLP solutions focused on protecting data in motion by monitoring email, web, secure web and FTP, as well as proactively blocking network communications. Soon after, organizations began to deploy DLP solutions for data at rest, in order to discover and protect sensitive information on internal file shares and desktops. While previous DLP solutions have been solely network-based, the risk of data loss through mobile devices like laptops and removable media devices has stimulated a growing demand for DLP solutions at the endpoint. GTB offers a DLP solution for all data forms; data at rest, data in motion and data in use.

GTB's Inspector quickly and efficiently detects and matches pre-defined data. A flexible rules engine allows an administrator to specify a wide range of compliance policies, based on users, computers, protocols and other parameters.  GTB's Data-at-Rest Manager (DARM) is a data discovery and search tool which scans the enterprise network for presence of the data of interest.  Confidential data is discovered with the same precision and performance of the GTB Inspector.  GTB's DARM scans any location on the network, including file servers, desktops and laptops, as well as removable media. GTB's Endpoint Protector is an innovative DLP solution addressing the growing problem of secure data leaving the organization through removable media devices such as, iPods, CD/DVD's or USB drives. With the Endpoint Protector, removable media devices are not forbidden from usage altogether; instead, only prohibited data is blocked from being saved. The Endpoint Protector can also detect activities such as copy and paste or the use of sensitive data in an unapproved application, for example someone encrypting the data in an attempt to bypass the Endpoint Protector block.