New programs requiring the use of unconventional protocols are becoming increasingly more prevalent. Furthermore, despite company policies forbidding the practice, employees frequently utilize peer to peer applications. Microsoft Networks and similar protocols, initially designed for LAN, are perfectly capable of working over the Internet. Finally, malicious applications (e.g., viruses and worms) can be utilized to transfer data across a broad variety of protocols. So supporting just SMTP, HTTP, FTP and IM is a real limitation of the majority of DLP solutions.  

    The GTB Inspector , a content aware reverse firewall; scans all outbound transmissions and identifies sensitive data in real-time. This is done for all protocols, including Email, SSL, Web 2.0 applications, IM and P2P.

      For the Endpoint, our Endpoint Protector monitors any I/O activity on a PC for all removable media activity, enforcing access policies created in the management console. All data sent to removable media is intercepted and inspected by the GTB inspection engine. Various enforcement actions can then be taken, such as blocking, alerting, encryption, etc

For more information on the Next Generation of Data Loss Prevention, go to  the GTB  Resource Center  Read about an available GTB Policy Based Email Encryption solution incorporating one of GTB's  Partners - Zix Corp