On Friday I returned from a visit to the Symantec offices in Seoul, South Korea where we held a kick-off "DLP week".  I spoke with many customers and partners and gave a few interviews to the local press.  It’s interesting to see, once again, familiar patterns of market development in Korea that seem to echo what happened in the U.S. DLP market.  There’s a consistent pattern around public data breach awareness and Korea’s market looks pretty far down this path.

Seoul Was Really Interesting

Before I geek out over DLP, a quick note about my time in Seoul.

Hanging out with the Seoul team was both fun and productive.  They work hard, play hard, love good food, good drinks (gombei!), plus are generous hosts to boot.  The Symantec Seoul team was all that and more.  Thanks Patrick, Gin  and team for your hospitality!

I was also impressed with the extreme driving steelo...

Last time, we talked a bit about the "New School" mode of thinking and dug into some of the publicly available numbers on data breaches. I mentioned two sources of security data and in this next post, I'll dig into the second source: DLP Risk Assessment data.

First, an open admission that (for obvious reasons of confidentiality) we simply cannot publish this data in detail; however, a summary of what we see will clearly make my point. Having said that, let's dive into why we have a very different perspective on the natures and causes of data breach.

We've conducted several hundred live on site engagements using highly accurate content-aware DLP systems to identify actual events of data exposure. This body of data should be of interest to practitioners since we don't miss a lot of exposure events. Publicly reported breach stats appear to have a serious problem with false negatives, and looking more deeply at what really happens on...

Welcome to the Symantec DLP Blog. In my inaugural post, I'd like to share with you my basic sense of optimism in where Data Loss Prevention is going. If you already know me, or have heard me present, you already know my confidence in DLP is now high and rising.

From what I see in the field, the magnitude of impact DLP will make in Information Security is hard to over-estimate. In my conversations with CISOs, security practitioners, and other entrepreneurs; there are numerous signs that Data Loss Prevention has finally arrived. Not all of these signs are clearly visible to people working outside of DLP; but they are definitely here. In the months ahead in this forum, expect to see many reasons why you should be paying close attention to this interesting corner of the Information Security space.

My high level of optimism may be hard for some members of the security community to understand. There's a lot of cynicism in the security business and, just by...