The recession is creating camaraderie amongst workforces, at the expense of their employers, is the finding of a transatlantic survey. Carried out amongst 600 office workers in Canary Wharf London and Wall Street New York, 41% of workers have already taken sensitive data with them to their new position, whilst a third would pass on company information if it proved useful in getting friends or family a job.

From an article on a security website, it states more and more employees are stealing data when they leave their current employer; A couple of interesting stats from the article.

  85% of people admit they know it’s illegal to download corporate data.

  57% of people say it is easier to take sensitive data this year, up 29% from last year

  Top of the list is customer and contact details

During this...

This week, Symantec participated in the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference held in Baltimore from October 26-30. This event is jointly sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The event brought together some of the leading organizations in government and industry seeking to address the basic challenge a common approach to securing government environments and information. And while the notion of common security standards isn’t new, the amount of initiatives that have complicated this area seems to be growing exponentially. The conference touched on a number of top IT initiatives that provide the top challenges and drive the most important security initiatives in government today:
Cloud Computing

• Health Information Technology (IT)
• Health Information Portability and...

The latest version for Data Loss Prevention is version 9.0.

Customers who are eligible for this upgrade will receive upgrade notifications but there will be no license keys. They just need to use the same key that they have for version 8.0.

If customer has just purchased DLP 9.0 and he wants to downgrade to version 8.0, he can use the key for DLP 9.0 to version 8.0.

DLP 9.0 key is backwards compatible to 8.0.
DLP 8.0 key is forwards compatible to 9.0

Vontu Data Loss Prevention: Upgrade

Customers upgrading to Vontu 8.0 to 9.0 will not recieve any upgrade key. They will continue to use the vontu 8.0 keys.

If you already have the Vontu Data loss prevention 8 license key, you can use the license key of Vontu DLp 8.0 to Vontu DLP 9. If you would like to purchase additional products, or if your renewing the product, that is the time you will recieve a license key for Vontu DLP 9.0.