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About Digital Asset Control
Managing Data Protection and Using Digital Asset Control
Traditional security solutions are focused on preventing external security threats from
reaching the network. In today’s security environment, this is only half the story. Data
breaches are now commonplace, exposing an organization’s confidential and sensitive
data – referred to as digital assets – to outside unauthorized parties. A data breach may
occur as a result of internal employee mistakes or carelessness, data outsourcing, stolen
or misplaced computing devices, or malicious attacks.
Data breaches can:
• Damage brand reputation
• Erode customer trust in the organization
• Result in unnecessary costs to cover for remediation and to pay fines for violating
compliance regulations
• Lead to lost business opportunities and revenue when intellectual property is stolen
With the prevalence and damaging effects of data breaches, organizations now see
digital asset protection as a critical component of their security infrastructure.
Digital Asset Control safeguards an organization’s digital assets against accidental or
deliberate leakage. Digital Asset Control allows you to:
• Identify the digital assets to protect
• Create policies that limit or prevent the transmission of digital assets through
common transmission channels, such as email and external devices
• Enforce compliance to established privacy standards
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